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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
That dynamic stands to drive the entire market as demand for AI draws in demand for sectors beyond technology and semiconductors, such as infrastructure and energy, to support the workloads.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 12 July 2025
But there’s a lot to do with pitch counts and workload management and all that stuff that kind of gets in the way of guys getting to that position.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 July 2025
The association estimates that workloads could double for counties.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 9 July 2025
Just as an athlete might feel pressure to dope up to keep up, a professor might feel compelled to use AI to manage an unmanageable workload.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 12 July 2025
But there’s a lot to do with pitch counts and workload management and all that stuff that kind of gets in the way of guys getting to that position.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 July 2025
The association estimates that workloads could double for counties.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 9 July 2025
Just as an athlete might feel pressure to dope up to keep up, a professor might feel compelled to use AI to manage an unmanageable workload.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workload
Noun
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As Blurton explains it, in the strength world, load and velocity often have an inverse relationship.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
15 July 2025
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Too much nitrogen fosters loads of vegetative (leaf and shoot) growth and little reproductive (flower and fruit) growth.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
11 July 2025
Noun
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In fact, Cadillac even dialed the power up for sport-ute duty, pulling 682 hp out of the 6.2-liter supercharged V8.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
15 July 2025
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Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump began informing America’s trading partners about their new duty rates under his tariff regime.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
15 July 2025
Noun
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The food truck team operators are judged on their culinary skills each week in a new town challenged with the task of creating dishes that will outsell their competition to stay in the competition.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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Counting clicks or pageviews doesn’t help if nobody is completing the core task.—
Pallishree Panigrahi,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
Noun
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But the story is more about his work and his life and his relationship to his mother and his relationship to his mentor, Isabella Blow, in a very theatrical performance.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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The big question here is, how will this more-than-a-decade-old lens work with the latest and greatest autofocus?—
Julian Chokkattu,
Wired News,
19 July 2025
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Great companies create cultures where ideas matter more than job titles.—
JJ Rosen,
The Tennessean,
24 July 2025
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Data showed across seven Valley cities that there were 158 full-time employees with a park ranger job title.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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“Workload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workload. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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