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 Teams paused relevant workloads while introducing additional safeguards. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026 The companies running their most important workloads on a single-vendor stack are running them on last Tuesday’s model, hoping the price does not move and the capability does not drift. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 Deals to secure smaller allocations of compute allow companies to deploy workloads faster. — Ashley Capoot,jordan Novet,annie Palmer,lora Kolodny,kai Nicol-Schwarz,caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 So OpenAI decided to trim the sails, cut fat, and really focus on coding and long-horizon agentic workloads. — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026 Asus Gaming Laptop Deal Tackle heavy workloads and intense gaming marathons without breaking a sweat using the Asus ROG Strix G16 Gaming Laptop. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2026 Astra will naturally cost the most to run, but Google’s system supports dynamically moving workloads between LLMs based on performance, latency, and efficiency. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026 Tier workloads by business impact, such as systems that must be back within hours, those that can wait days, and those that can wait longer. — Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 They are also reflected in lesson plans, teachers’ workloads, classroom time, professional autonomy and the opportunities that disappear when preparing for a test becomes a central purpose of schooling. — Liza Bondurant, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
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  1. loads
  2. duties
  3. tasks
  4. jobs
Noun
  • Cranes lift 200-ton loads at mountain bridge site The R4300-200 has a maximum lifting capacity of 200 metric tons (220 US tons) and an 80-meter jib (262 feet).
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Its remaining civil rights workers have described untenable case loads and pressure to dismiss complaints.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • Backup running back Tyler Goodson is expected to handle kick return duties, while wide receiver Jonathan Mingo is expected to be the punt returner.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In his absence, the duo of Damon Ferguson and La’Vell Wright have handled Pittsburgh’s duties in the backfield.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of duties
Noun
  • Meta describes this option as permanently deleting chat history, stored files and active tasks.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Its Claude Tag tool, introduced in June, can follow Slack discussions and check back on unresolved tasks.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of tasks
Noun
  • Despite a strong growth forecast for the region, unemployment among the fast-growing youth population remains stubbornly high, leading to political instability and leaving the authorities looking for ways to create more jobs.
    — Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Unlike training approaches that largely depend on preparing datasets and updating models before deployment, this framework allows robots to continue learning while performing actual jobs.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of jobs

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