Thesaurus results for TASKS

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noun

plural of task

as in duties

a piece of work that needs to be done regularly one of my tasks in the morning is to make lunches for everyone in the family

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as in roles

the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists the forklift's task is to stack pallets of goods in the warehouse

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tasks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of task

as in entrusts

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 tasks

Noun

The mother spends her waking hours working on other people’s farms and performing tasks the neighbors prefer not to do themselves. —

The Know, Denver Post, 31 May 2026 Would adjusting your approach improve your performance, smooth out a relationship, or add value to future tasks? —

Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Home tasks are tougher, as layouts and tasks are more varied and messy. —

Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026 But the demonstration is an important one as more aviation companies are looking to AI to usher in a new evolution in air travel by using it to automate tasks for pilots and perhaps one day enable fully autonomous flights. —

Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 24 May 2026 But these aren’t showing up as a boost to GDP, BofA said, explaining that while AI can currently transform about 20% of all workplace tasks, only 23% of those are actually cost-effective to automate at today’s prices. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 May 2026

Verb

The order tasks the Labor and Workforce Development Agency with producing a report within three months on how AI will disrupt the workforce and drafting regulations within the following six months. —

Sacbee.com, 21 May 2026 The law also tasks museums with the mission to research provenance within their collections. —

Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026 The law tasks districts that adopt prayer periods with obtaining parental consent for students to participate. —

Haajrah Gilani, Houston Chronicle, 7 May 2026 The memo now tasks those offices with conducting toxicity assessments and brings an end to the program that has powered the EPA’s efforts to protect people from harmful chemicals. —

Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 May 2026 The second episode of Euphoria’s third season finds Rue basking in the glow of God’s favor and settling into her new life working for the strip-club proprietor Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who tasks her with scooping pig slop and covering up evidence of a dancer’s accidental overdose. —

Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026 The event was the inaugural Miami finale of the Green Heart STEM Challenge, a national program of the Captain Planet Foundation that tasks students in grades six through nine with identifying environmental issues in their communities and designing practical, implementable solutions. —

Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026 An orchestrating agent delegates tasks to specialized subagents, which may in turn call external APIs or interact with agents operated by partner organizations. —

Huzefa Olia, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2026 Set in the ’90s, the game tasks players with such activities as stocking shelves, manning the checkout counter, and balancing the daily books; sometimes a videotape needs to be rewound, or a patron disputes a late fee. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasks

Noun

Carlos Vicens, ostensibly a set-piece coach, stepped up and effectively became Guardiola’s No 2, alongside his other duties, but he was stretched too thin.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 25 May 2026
About 1 in 3 states didn’t even employ one staffer whose full-time job was to ensure that nonprofit funds were properly managed and that people in their states who ran nonprofits were upholding their financial and ethical duties, according to the survey.

— Sarah Webber, Fortune, 24 May 2026