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"be engaged in a task" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is actively involved or focused on a specific activity or assignment. For example: - The students were all engaged in their tasks during the group project. - My boss is currently engaged in an important task and cannot be disturbed. - It was difficult for me to stay engaged in the task because I was tired.
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Mostly, he says, one must simply grit one's teeth, content in the knowledge that one is engaged in a task which, ultimately, is for the greater good.
Performance declines the longer a person is engaged in a task, gradually during the first few hours and more steeply toward the end of a long period at work.
Psychophysiological interactions (PPI) analysis is another functional connectivity method used to analyze the coupling of neuronal activity between distinct brain regions while an individual is engaged in a task.
In this study, patients were engaged in a task of somatosensory discrimination that required repeated encoding, maintenance and retrieval of information for comparison of sequentially explored objects over an extended period of time (see methods section below) and thus demanded a high degree of attention and working memory.
As a manager, simply assigning tasks to your employees is not enough; your employees should understand exactly what they need to do and have the necessary tools and training so they are engaged in a task, rather than just doing it for the sake of checking one more task off their list.
Explaining why they are engaging in a task may also drive "more students to take the activity seriously".
The authors measured durations of intervals of quasi-stable phase synchrony and found that in the beta frequency range, the intervals were longer when observers were engaged in a perceptual task than when they performed no task.
They described the intelligence as problematic at best, but said intelligence agencies were engaged in a hard task.
We check our email while we're engaged in a complex task that requires our full concentration.
When a particular location of the brain is engaged in a cognitive task like naming fruits, it requires extra energy to do its job.
And Mr Pritchard the butler (Adrian Scarborough) is engaged in a critical task: single-handedly attempting to out-camp the entire cast of any costume drama ever made.
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