Example Sentences

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“My younger colleagues have tasked me to help navigate this new season, counting on my familiarity with county government and council practices and procedures to move our agenda forward.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2022

"I should have tasked them to go down to Swanage and search the area," he told the court.

From BBC • May 26, 2022

It would have tasked oversight with Labor and Industries, as opposed to the Department of Health, which has the ability to enforce staffing plans but has not been quick to do so.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2022

Namely, it profiled Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, two of MGM’s top brass who have tasked themselves with reinvigorating the MGM brand.

From The Verge • Jul. 8, 2021

In two years he was able to attack a problem which would have tasked the patience, if not the skill, of the most experienced astronomer.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)