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tasked

  • past participle of task.
  • past tense form of task.

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"What you worry about is the repeated shocks are building a muscle memory of what it means to raise prices, and that's the exact thing the Federal Reserve is tasked to avert," she said.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Before they left, the pair were tasked with picking one other couple who they felt should also leave.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

A recent challenge from the cleaning brand Scrub Daddy tasked users with filming themselves shopping at Home Depot for its BBQ Daddy scrubbing product.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Bulgaria will authorise the deployment of up to eight KC-135 tanker aircraft and up to 250 military personnel, tasked with supporting operations in the Middle East.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

From a parent’s point of view, it wasn’t a bad way to raise teenagers—knowing that a set of watchful adults was trailing them at all times, tasked with extricating them from any sort of emergency.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama