task force

noun

Definition of task forcenext
as in team

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Recent Examples of task force The league formed an offseason officiating task force that included an effort to clean up some of the WNBA’s issues regarding physicality and officiating. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 He would be arrested in 2000 in what Artnet Magazine called a SWAT-style raid by a task force of FBI and DEA agents and charged with felony conspiracy to distribute the drug, and faced consecutive life sentences. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 In August, Charlotte established a 19-person task force to take a closer look at the issue and help craft recommendations. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2026 Though his predecessor dissolved the working group, former Mayor Eric Adams subsequently launched an antisemitism task force and the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for task force
Recent Examples of Synonyms for task force
  1. team
  2. platoon
  3. group
  4. organization
  5. grouping
  6. brigade
  7. crew
  8. cluster
Noun
  • And there, Guadagnino says, gesturing to a section covered by a red tarp, is where his team built the men’s bathrooms where some computer scientists have a pissing contest.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In a 2016 preprint paper, a team of computer scientists asked whether every election has at least one council in the core.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of team
Noun
  • The welcome ceremony also included a flyover by two B-1 bombers, platoons from each military service, and a presentation of the flags and anthems of both countries.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The welcome ceremony was also set to include a flyover by two B-1 bombers, flower presenters, platoons from each military service, and a presentation of the flags and anthems of both countries.
    — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of platoon
Noun
  • The letter is spearheaded by Guardrails Action, the nonprofit affiliated with Guardrails Alliance, the super PAC launched in June as a counterweight to pro-AI election groups.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The service The service at Sala is seamless and friendly, and from arrival, the front desk staff feels more like a group of friends than a removed set of hotel employees.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of group
Noun
  • There is a subset of incoming college first year students, men and women, who find these organizations really appealing, and some of it is entirely understandable.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The county’s options for the facility range from holding Discovery Place in default and taking over the nature museum to accepting Discovery Place’s terms and giving the organization decades to repay the debt, staff said.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of organization
Noun
  • For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • In public health, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stressed the need for the continent to manufacture its own vaccines, and to do so in regional groupings.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of grouping
Noun
  • Numan said Iraq had established two joint Iraqi-Kurdish brigades focusing on counter-ISIS operations.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Gómez Vergara’s documentary revisits Chile’s social uprising through a health brigade treating protesters injured by police repression, connecting present violence with dictatorship-era wounds.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of brigade
Noun
  • Bravata says none of the cameras or the crew for the photoshoot were from the show.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
  • As with all Kimpton properties, the crew puts out complimentary coffee in the morning for guests and hosts a free nightly wine hour.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of crew
Noun
  • Just around a curved hallway are three colorful displays of books wrapped in African textiles by the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, each presiding over a cluster of seating.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The structure’s 27 gleaming marble petals rise in clusters of three to form nine sides, creating a perfectly symmetrical bloom that appears to float above a series of nine reflecting pools.
    — Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
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