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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
LLMs comprise two main workloads, training and inferencing.
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Clint Boulton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Combined with an increase to a 120-watt TDP, this may well help improve productivity workloads — something the X3D chips have always fallen behind their non-X3D counterparts on.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2024
And this seemingly boundless well of energy extends to his workload.
—Michael Cuby, Them, 29 Oct. 2024
The temporary-turned-permanent arrangement declared Britney was incapable of managing her financial affairs and making basic life decisions, but her workload over the following years would prove otherwise.
—James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2024
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Clint Boulton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Combined with an increase to a 120-watt TDP, this may well help improve productivity workloads — something the X3D chips have always fallen behind their non-X3D counterparts on.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2024
And this seemingly boundless well of energy extends to his workload.
—Michael Cuby, Them, 29 Oct. 2024
The temporary-turned-permanent arrangement declared Britney was incapable of managing her financial affairs and making basic life decisions, but her workload over the following years would prove otherwise.
—James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workload
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Zion Off-Road That gives you a pretty solid utility trailer with loads more mounting versatility than average.New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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Utilities are scrambling to find ways to power the growing electric load.Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Voters arrived at the Brighton District Library after the polls opened at 7 a.m. to perform their civic duty and vote.Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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The role cutting government spending is not expected to be a Cabinet level position, meaning Musk wouldn’t be required to step away from his CEO duties.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The task of silverware placement and napkin arranging begins as a relatively simple one, taught through phonetic devices like B-M-W (bread, meal, water) or various colorful stories that involve the knife protecting the spoon.Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
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As the title suggests, an ice storm makes that task nearly impossible as twists and double-crosses further complicate their attempts.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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Another woman on the same app bailed a few days before our hangout because of work and personal stress.Allie Volpe, Vox, 14 Nov. 2024
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Always there were the references to Harvard, to his work as an architect and in philanthropy.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Having somehow returned, firmly, to the real world, the narrator decides to quit his job and start working in a library in a small, out-of-the-way town in Fukushima Prefecture.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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His job on this day involves hauling containers from the congested TraPac terminal in the Port of Los Angeles to a storage yard near the port.Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Workload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workload. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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