WORKLOADS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

workloads

noun

plural of workload

as in loads

the amount of work that is expected to be done Students complained about the heavy workload.

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Recent Examples of workloads China’s NeodraDynamics Robotics has introduced a heavy-duty humanoid robot designed to handle industrial workloads beyond the capabilities of conventional electric machines. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026 The largest models and most demanding workloads will continue to depend on enormous centralized computing infrastructure. — Tiffany Chang, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 With VMware’s strategic changes complicating future planning, Topgolf decided to migrate its on-premises workloads, including those for its venues, offices, labs, and data centers. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026 Nvidia's GPUs have been the standard for AI workloads and models, and are found in data centers owned by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft themselves. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The chip has two super-cores for short, bursty workloads and four efficiency cores for background tasks and sustained workloads, which Apple says equate to a 20% performance improvement. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 Maia 200 is already running on production AI workloads across Microsoft, including Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft’s own AI models. — Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026 His recovery routine keeps his body healthy and prepared for heavy workloads. — Pj Green october 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2026 The factors most closely tied to burnout included unfair treatment, crushing workloads, unclear expectations, poor communication and support from managers, and unreasonable deadlines. — Christos Makridis, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026

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Noun

This is the kind of test that quickly separates a power station that merely has an impressive number printed on its case from one with an inverter and battery management system capable of handling tough, real-world loads.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Data collected from the test rig could allow manufacturers to design heat pumps and heat exchangers for high temperatures, large loads, and changing conditions.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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Directing duties are shared by China’s Zhao Yilong and American filmmaker Shaun Piccinino.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
More than 1,500 potential voters signed up for a meeting of the Los Angeles Continuum of Care board to pick a replacement for the core duties of the beleaguered Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of duties

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State agencies, including the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, have helped local officials with damage assessments and power restoration, among other tasks.

— Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
However, the agreement does not yet specify the humanoid model that will be used for the new logistics applications, the exact logistics tasks to be tested, the number of robots involved, or a timetable for routine deployment.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tasks

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The protection of American jobs justified the chains of bondage, or so the argument went.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Engagement is often seen as a metric about sentiment that can be measured and tracked, but is treated as something employees bring—or fail to bring—to their jobs.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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