task forces

Definition of task forcesnext
plural of task force

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Noun
  • Popularized by a beer commercial during the 1986 World Cup, it’s used to rally on teams with its repetitive (albeit nonsensical) syllables as well as its upbeat ending.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • Russian national teams remain suspended from most international hockey competitions due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
    Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2026
Noun
  • But many critics — including transit, affordable housing, environmental justice and clean water groups — said this amounts to a dismantling of the program.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • The Kansas Coalition for Common Sense, which has supported the petition effort alongside the groups Prairie Progress Civic Action and Leading Kansas, slammed the response.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • After the claims were not submitted because one of the behavioral health organizations' accreditation was invalid, the two allegedly conspired with another individual to submit claims.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • While some organizations may prefer to wait and see how AI Search evolves, others are already exploring ways to improve their visibility within these platforms.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Their brigades are like one out of six that work.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • In Cairo, a famously nocturnal city, shops and restaurants are now forced to close at 9 pm, with police brigades sweeping through the broad downtown avenues to urge everyone to go home.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the coming years, as Erik Neander took over the baseball operations department, the Rays were at the forefront of analytics with defensive shifts, aggressive platoons, utilizing openers, creating a menagerie of arm slots in the bullpen and, yes, prioritizing exit velocity.
    John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • Outfield requires far more starting spots, and most of those available later in drafts are locked in platoons.
    Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Apocalypse movies are breeding grounds for unlikely posses, and this Australian zom-com from writer-director Abe Forsythe is no exception.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Others threatened the monkeys that wouldn’t let Punch join their posses.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • At scale, lower fertilizer use means lower yields of staple crops.
    John W.H. Denton AO, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • This is why fruit crops are almost always propagated vegetatively, or cloned, rather than grown from seed.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2026
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“Task forces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/task%20forces. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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