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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 workload
Also not a surprise: The planning workload is lopsided for 85% of couples.
81% of women reported that the groom spent little to zero time planning.
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Kristal Dixon, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
The only concern regards the scale of his workload.
—James Pearce, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
If confirmed, Bondi would lead a Department of Justice staffed at the highest levels by Trump's former defense attorneys and facing a potential morale and resignation crisis by the career prosecutors who carry the bulk of the department's workload.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Here’s three ways women can tackle unclear expectations, disconnection, and overwhelming workloads—and transform these challenges into stepping stones for their next big opportunity.
—Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Kristal Dixon, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
The only concern regards the scale of his workload.
—James Pearce, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
If confirmed, Bondi would lead a Department of Justice staffed at the highest levels by Trump's former defense attorneys and facing a potential morale and resignation crisis by the career prosecutors who carry the bulk of the department's workload.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Here’s three ways women can tackle unclear expectations, disconnection, and overwhelming workloads—and transform these challenges into stepping stones for their next big opportunity.
—Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workload
Noun
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In their world, there were more hands to share the load, more voices to call out, more feet to hold the line.—
Katherine Schulten,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Gigabyte was showing off a pair of high-end systems built out with the C500, in concert with the company’s AI TOP utility, which was being demoed with a feature linking the two systems via Thunderbolt and the two sharing the load of AI processing tasks.—
John Burek,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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By contrast, Frazier took on the role of outmoded power, compliant duty.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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There are lots of ways to add a physical element in spot duty if the Jets want to augment Stanley and Lowry in that role or limit Stanley to the press box.—
Murat Ates,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Given the importance and difficulty of the job, McConnell said he wasn’t convinced that Hegseth had proven himself up to the task of following in the footsteps of men such as George Marshall, Caspar Weinberger, or Robert Gates.—
Elaine Mallon,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Jan. 2025
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As temperatures climbed above freezing across much of the Southern United States Thursday, Americans from Texas to New Orleans faced the daunting task of cleaning up from a deadly storm that dropped unprecedented snow totals on the region.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At the Langs’ home, a small work shed in the back yard was the lone surviving structure.—
Oren Peleg,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Pressure from new year’s resolutions, high stress, low productivity during winter, plus waiting for your next payday and needing to appear energized at work all culminate in building up Blue Monday’s bold claim.—
Alyssa Jaffer,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The number of people who believe the agency is doing an excellent or even a good job has plunged dramatically compared with last year, falling by 23 points.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Then the biggest thing over the last couple months in Santa Cruz is the staff there did a great job of working him defensively.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Workload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workload. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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