task force

noun

Definition of task forcenext
as in team

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Recent Examples of task force In August, a league task force of team presidents and general managers discussed transgender participation along with online abuse directed at players. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The deal came as part of the WGAE’s AI efforts, which include an AI task force. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026 Nigeria established an Ebola task force in June following the outbreak in Congo in mid-May. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 The new task force, whose first session was set to convene Monday, will be led by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who recently completed a round of breast cancer treatment. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 19 Oct. 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
  • Anthropic’s own customer blog profiles Jared Sires, a startup account executive who joined the sales team in 2024 with no coding background.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Jullien Harneis, the UN’s senior Ebola coordinator, said the outbreak’s expanding reach required more teams, coordination and logistical support.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of team
Noun
  • The department uses a three-shift platoon system with a daily minimum of 11 on-duty personnel, per the study.
    — Andis Robeznieks, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Its battery-electric vehicles propel themselves rather than relying on a conventional locomotive, and can operate individually or form coordinated groups, known as platoons.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of platoon
Noun
  • The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The money will go to conservation groups and local partners working on species the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies as endangered, critically endangered, or extinct in the wild.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • The organization built a political presence in Texas with lobbying and legislative testimony as the state pushed back on transgender ideology in recent years.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Databricks helps organizations collect, process, and analyze large amounts of data and has been used by companies, such as Al-Futtaim Group, to help optimize its supply chain and develop a customer loyalty program.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of organization
Noun
  • Martelly’s registration under a new political grouping, Debloke, will place the council under heavy scrutiny.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In a small farm context, that will be to a grouping of farmers that form a producer unit using the same practices in the same climate.
    — SJ Studio, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of grouping
Noun
  • In that time, the drone flew almost 40 miles, with Ukrainian units using other drones to distract the Russian military, the brigade said.
    — Mariia Kashchenko, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The SkyFall drone was sent to a Ukrainian brigade for frontline testing starting in October, according to The Associated Press.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of brigade
Noun
  • The October 19 exercise tested how the vessel handled changing mission requirements and simulated machinery failures without onboard crew intervention.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • For the first four games, the Chiefs’ wide receiver crew came up big.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of crew
Noun
  • Now, after the top 25 are picked, conversations can be had about whether the committee wants to re-rank any cluster of teams next to each other.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
  • North Indiana Avenue Apartments A cluster of apartment buildings that face each other in the 100 block of North Indiana Avenue show the growth of multifamily housing along major corridors in northeast Kansas City in the earlier 1900s.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
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