as in entrusted
to give a task, duty, or responsibility to
I have been tasked by the host with bringing the pies for Thanksgiving this year
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Recent Examples of tasked
Wapahi is tasked with sharing the importance of that return home with the community, and praying over the land where these bison will live.
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Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
You are completely immersed in the yearlong making of Disneyland thanks to excerpts from 100 hours of raw and rarely seen footage from the Walt Disney Archives shot by a team of cameramen tasked by Walt Disney to capture the construction of Disneyland.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
This is the state shifting the financial burden of its own delays and reversals onto the very organizations tasked with delivering public services.
—Kristin Brown, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
During the offseason program, Scott was tasked with getting free-agent addition Tre’von Moehrig up to speed on Evero’s defense.
—Mike Kaye
january 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
After collaborating with Sotheby’s on a 2024 installation of Impressionism, for which they were tasked with subverting assumptions of the movement, the duo are now conceiving the company’s new restaurant, Marcel, named after the architect.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2026
In the series, Drescher played Nanny Fine, a super stylish, fierce woman from Queens, New York tasked with rearing three Upper East Side kids.
—Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
After another challenge and the banishment of Williams, the Traitors were tasked with a murder in plain sight.
—Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2026
The jury has been tasked with deciding how much Boeing must pay the family of one of the victims.
—Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
You are completely immersed in the yearlong making of Disneyland thanks to excerpts from 100 hours of raw and rarely seen footage from the Walt Disney Archives shot by a team of cameramen tasked by Walt Disney to capture the construction of Disneyland.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
This is the state shifting the financial burden of its own delays and reversals onto the very organizations tasked with delivering public services.
—Kristin Brown, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
During the offseason program, Scott was tasked with getting free-agent addition Tre’von Moehrig up to speed on Evero’s defense.
—Mike Kaye
january 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
After collaborating with Sotheby’s on a 2024 installation of Impressionism, for which they were tasked with subverting assumptions of the movement, the duo are now conceiving the company’s new restaurant, Marcel, named after the architect.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2026
In the series, Drescher played Nanny Fine, a super stylish, fierce woman from Queens, New York tasked with rearing three Upper East Side kids.
—Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
After another challenge and the banishment of Williams, the Traitors were tasked with a murder in plain sight.
—Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2026
The jury has been tasked with deciding how much Boeing must pay the family of one of the victims.
—Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasked
entrusted
Verb
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Time and time again, evidence mounts that those entrusted with executive management responsibilities struggle to keep up.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Jan. 2026
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It was treated as irrelevant, rather than as a co-equal branch entrusted with the gravest decision a republic can make.—
Jon Duffy,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Tasked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tasked. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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