Perhaps not in Java but in C# it is quite common to do

    var tasks = names.Select(GetThingAsync); // IEnumerable<Task<Thing>>
    var things = Task.WhenAll(tasks);        // Task<Thing[]>, await to get Thing[]

Can mix and match with other LINQ methods. There are other useful methods like Parallel.ForEachAsync, .AsParallel (Java has a similar abstraction) and IAsyncEnumerable for asynchronously "streaming back" a sequence of results which let you compose the tasks in an easy way.