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Recent Examples of task force
The task force coordinates between federal agencies on what authorities to use in specific scenarios and how to mitigate any threat from drones.
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
Of the 605 sites where a multiagency state and federal task force ripped out illicit cannabis plants, roughly 9% were on public lands — up from an average of 3% to 4%.
—Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Gordon said the big reason the task force looked into this idea was to better position the state when drug shortages happen nationally.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
Guzman’s arrest was part of an operation conducted by SJPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force and the FBI timed with Super Bowl week, when law-enforcement agencies and public officials historically increase attention on human trafficking and child exploitation.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
Of the 605 sites where a multiagency state and federal task force ripped out illicit cannabis plants, roughly 9% were on public lands — up from an average of 3% to 4%.
—Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Gordon said the big reason the task force looked into this idea was to better position the state when drug shortages happen nationally.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
Guzman’s arrest was part of an operation conducted by SJPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force and the FBI timed with Super Bowl week, when law-enforcement agencies and public officials historically increase attention on human trafficking and child exploitation.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for task force
Noun
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Every one of the NFL’s 32 teams has played a regular-season game outside the United States and is signed up to the league’s Global Markets Program.—
Tom Chitty,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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Kennedy received a verbal warning from governing body World Curling a day after the feisty back-and-forth with the Swedish team, when fingers were pointed and the Canadian player repeatedly swore.—
STEVE DOUGLAS,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Nimmo is much more platoon-neutral.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Club sources told Gelb that the incident was indicative of a rift with the Phillies that grew after Castellanos became a platoon player.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, interim chief executives of PEN America, were appointed to permanently lead the literary group.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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His agent, in a panic, called our group’s director.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Prosecutors said county staffers raised concerns about the organization with their supervisors.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Eventually, about five years ago, several organizations came together as a collective to apply for federal and state funding for a bigger project.—
Melina Walling,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Each subject and approach is an ongoing concern left intentionally open-ended, and never contained within a single project, title or grouping.—
Steve Appleford,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Army now wants to determine how the system fits into its own brigade-level operations.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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This is a lot to ask of a feral brigade of extremely bright, wealthy, and sleepless twentysomethings dispatched to the front lines of an arms race that their bosses started.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That left only three crew members to keep the place running — one American and two Russians — prompting NASA to pause spacewalks and trim research.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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Extras sporting afros and ’70s garb walk past Potente, while the crew battles noisy busses to grab a few seconds of footage.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The ever-popular Joshua Tree Coffee Company is nearby as well, alongside a cluster of vintage shops and art spaces.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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Our Local Group — like all galaxy groups and galaxy clusters — will experience this, eventually creating a super-galaxy known as Milkdromeda.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Task force.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/task%20force. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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