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
Now, Stefanski is tasked with finding a way to turn things around in a hurry with arguably the weakest quarterback room in all of football.
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Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Air traffic controllers tasked with managing aircraft movements on runways and in the skies are working without pay during the shutdown, leading to more controllers calling in sick and triggering short staff warnings from the FAA.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
Advertisement California’s new maps will replace those drawn by the independent commission typically tasked with carrying out redistricting in the state each decade after the Census.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
That will require the kind of capability more akin to what Suleyman is now tasked with building –- AI that is fully under the control of humans.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
John Wills, a Navy veteran who was sent to the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1978 and tasked with helping to clean up nuclear fallout from tests conducted three decades previously, felt his first major health consequence at age 22.
—Hope Hodge Seck, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
One set Crombie was tasked with was creating London’s Globe Theatre in the late 1500s.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
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
Christopher Payne/Esto Robots, Roach says, are best tasked with heavy lifting and repetitive tasks, or those that demand digitized speed and accuracy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2025
Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Air traffic controllers tasked with managing aircraft movements on runways and in the skies are working without pay during the shutdown, leading to more controllers calling in sick and triggering short staff warnings from the FAA.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
Advertisement California’s new maps will replace those drawn by the independent commission typically tasked with carrying out redistricting in the state each decade after the Census.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
That will require the kind of capability more akin to what Suleyman is now tasked with building –- AI that is fully under the control of humans.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
John Wills, a Navy veteran who was sent to the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1978 and tasked with helping to clean up nuclear fallout from tests conducted three decades previously, felt his first major health consequence at age 22.
—Hope Hodge Seck, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
One set Crombie was tasked with was creating London’s Globe Theatre in the late 1500s.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
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
Christopher Payne/Esto Robots, Roach says, are best tasked with heavy lifting and repetitive tasks, or those that demand digitized speed and accuracy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasked
entrusted
Verb
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That Carroll, one of the most accomplished coaches of his generation, entrusted the Las Vegas offense to Kelly seems to have been a massive whiff.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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As regional leaders were entrusted with more power, Rome’s centralized influence waned until the whole thing crumbled.—
Anne Victoria Clark,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Tasked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tasked. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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