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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 workloads
In another development, Fermi America has enlisted South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) to design and build the nuclear heart of a vast private power grid aimed squarely at fueling next-generation artificial-intelligence workloads in Texas.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Data center demand has surged in recent years, largely driven by the explosion in AI workloads, which require vast computing power, electrical power, cooling and networking infrastructure.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Duties include building functioning modeling simulations, developing software tools and testing graphic workloads.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
While training workloads have already been well-documented, Huang stressed that inference—the real-time reasoning that underpins everything from chatbots to recommendation algorithms—is only just beginning.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Kondap, in a conversation with us, maintained that some ISV’s AI workloads today are already topping out the 45 TOPS of the original X Elite.
—Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Both metrics are important to generative AI workloads.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Firms are scrambling to add tax professionals, but with a relatively spares talent pool, that means heavier workloads for existing CPAs.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Data center demand has surged in recent years, largely driven by the explosion in AI workloads, which require vast computing power, electrical power, cooling and networking infrastructure.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Duties include building functioning modeling simulations, developing software tools and testing graphic workloads.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
While training workloads have already been well-documented, Huang stressed that inference—the real-time reasoning that underpins everything from chatbots to recommendation algorithms—is only just beginning.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Kondap, in a conversation with us, maintained that some ISV’s AI workloads today are already topping out the 45 TOPS of the original X Elite.
—Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Both metrics are important to generative AI workloads.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Firms are scrambling to add tax professionals, but with a relatively spares talent pool, that means heavier workloads for existing CPAs.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workloads
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This dual-purpose design requires exceptional stiffness, vibration control, and precision engineering, allowing heavy highway loads and high-speed rail traffic to share the same structure safely.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Same question, loads of responses.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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If Patullo can’t figure it out soon, coach Nick Sirianni might have to consider stepping in and taking over play-calling duties.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The tour, with German musician Anika Nilles taking drum duties, launches Sunday, June 7, at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, the first of two nights.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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Elon Musk and other AI leaders continue to insist that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—an AI that can think and learn like a human, across many tasks—is on the horizon.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Despite taking on extra tasks in hopes of landing a promotion, her career at the company never advanced.—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Some employers like Google, Microsoft, and EY have all offered high-level jobs to applicants without degrees, focusing on work experience and special credentialing.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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Taking the creative helm of Chanel as only the fourth artistic director to ever lead the house, Blazy has been entrusted with one of the biggest and most sought-after — although perhaps not the most challenging — jobs in fashion.—
Fiona Sinclair Scott,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has named multidisciplinary artist Nilbar Güreş, known for her humorous, poetic, yet critical works commenting on social topics, as Turkey’s representative to the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, set to take place May 9–November 22, 2026.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Players will learn tactics for every map and game mode included in the Beta, explore how in-game progression works and discover which rewards will carry over to the full launch.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Workloads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workloads. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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