appointed

verb

Definition of appointednext
past tense of appoint
1
as in set
to decide upon (the time or date for an event) usually from a position of authority at the appointed hour we were in our places

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2
as in nominated
to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty was appointed to the council on national security

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Recent Examples of appointed The City Council appointed Harrington to office after former Mayor Vi Lyles resigned midterm. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2026 Santoyo, 72, was appointed by the state to the board of managers in 2016. — Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026 These decisions were informed by the Council on Ethics, an independent body appointed by Norway's Ministry of Finance. — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Brian Erickson was appointed CFO of Runpod, an AI developer cloud platform. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 He was recently appointed to the board of Triumph Gulf Coast, which oversees how Florida spends money recovered for damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. — Ed White, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Leoni was appointed creative director of Calvin Klein Collection in May 2024 and made her debut at New York Fashion Week in February 2025 for the Fall/Winter 2025 season. — Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026 Noel McClean has been appointed Head of Bectu and will take over from the retiring Philippa Childs early next year. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 He was appointed by City Manager Peter Iglesias to the Gables’ planning and zoning board and previously served for nearly two decades on the county’s planning and zoning board. — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appointed
  1. set
  2. nominated
  3. designated
  4. assigned
  5. named
  6. constituted
  7. picked
  8. commissioned
Verb
  • The decision to set that tone staggering through all 10 minutes of the extended cut might scan as raw inspiration, placing Spacemen 3 on a narrow band from La Monte Young and Terry Riley to some brilliant dro)))ne future.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Anthropic wants Congress to set strict limits on when federal authorities can stop advanced AI models from reaching users.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of set
Verb
  • His films have gone to Cannes multiple times, and he has been nominated for an International Emmy.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For Boyd, being nominated is an opportunity to join some of the biggest names in South Florida high school football.
    — CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of nominated
Verb
  • Around that time, Nusra was designated a terrorist organization by the United States and several other Western governments.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Tagle was designated at the last minute to stand in for Leo at Wednesday's Mass to close out a conference on family ministry.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of designated
Verb
  • Other senior church roles include the Dean of the College of Cardinals—a position recently assigned to Cardinal Tagle.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Thousands of vehicles without air conditioning Records obtained by the I-Team also revealed that more than half of the active delivery vehicles assigned in Texas still lack air conditioning.
    — Ginger Allen, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of assigned
Verb
  • Opening her case, Karmy-Jones walked through the allegations from the six women, who have a lifelong right to anonymity even though they are being named in court.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The bill in consideration was originally named Ryder’s Law after a 14-year-old carriage horse who collapsed in 2022 and was later euthanized due to cancer.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of named
Verb
  • The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
  • America was cultural dynamism that constituted soft power, from Hollywood and hip-hop to the once finest university system in the world.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of constituted
Verb
  • Paul picked three wickets in the 19th over to wrap up the innings.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The effect was clear in Nevada’s 2024 Senate race, which Democrats narrowly won as nearly 5 percent of voters picked a candidate outside the two major parties.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of picked
Verb
  • There’s Haroon Mirza’s Stone Circle, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, another venerable local institution.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The photography by Andrew Jacobs is juxtaposed against works by the Belgian artist Katrien de Blauwer, commissioned for the project to evoke emotion through color.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of commissioned

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“Appointed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appointed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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