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the amount of work that is expected to be done
Students complained about the heavy workload.
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Recent Examples of workload
In a recent investigation, MIT found that AI training may consume seven or eight times more energy than a typical computing workload and a single query sent to ChatGPT may consume five times more electricity than a Google search.
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Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
While the world was demanding, the culprit wasn’t her workload.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Career guidance materials also describe both the financial upside and the workload involved.
—Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Together, these features are designed to reduce driver workload while improving situational awareness and overall convenience behind the wheel.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
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Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
While the world was demanding, the culprit wasn’t her workload.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Career guidance materials also describe both the financial upside and the workload involved.
—Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Together, these features are designed to reduce driver workload while improving situational awareness and overall convenience behind the wheel.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workload
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Now, Nicasio and other students' work is paying off, giving people a place to take a load off.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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More income meant more leverage, the thinking went, and more ability to negotiate a fairer split of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, pet care—the whole to-do list and mental load of running a household.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Two people, including an off-duty police officer, were injured in a small plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday, sources said.—
Kerri Corrado,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Until then, assistant coaches Bridgett Melton and Tori Banda will share coaching duties.—
Greg Riddle,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Once in office, Bondi took on the difficult task of leading the Justice Department while also pleasing the president.—
Austin Sarat,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Say what excellence looks like, swap one task for another, then confirm a more realistic schedule.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
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While Protect Wyoming is necessarily focused within the state and on state politics, rather than federal candidates, its work stands to influence nonresidents who hunt, fish, and recreate in the state.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2026
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For commuters like Sirena Lopez, who drives two hours each way for work, the impact is immediate.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The rule has been expanded that teams must interview two minority candidates for openings at head coach, general managers and the offensive and defensive coordinator jobs.—
Mac Engel
March 30,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2026
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And this Pios team, the first at DU to ever clinch a third straight Frozen Four bid, might be Carle’s best coaching job yet.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Workload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workload. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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