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 After his final deployment, he was appointed director of Missouri’s Show-Me Heroes program, a workforce development partnership between the Missouri National Guard, the governor’s office and the Missouri Division of Workforce Development. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026 In 2024, Robert Hur, a special prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department concluded that although Biden brought some classified documents to his home, that criminal charges were not warranted. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 25 July 2026 The former Premier League striker was appointed on a permanent basis ahead of the 2023 season. — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026 The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has appointed Fred Tsui, founder and CEO of Moebius Entertainment, as its new executive director, the organization said Friday. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2026 In May, a court of appeal annulled a 2023 party congress vote that appointed Ozel as CHP chair. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 Before she was appointed, the Marlins had three women apply to an open internship spot. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 July 2026 While those are for the rich and famous (of which Mayrlife counts many as clientele, discreetly of course) even the rooms for us mere mortals are perfectly appointed. — Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 24 July 2026 Fred Tsui, the veteran Hong Kong sales executive and founder of Moebius Entertainment, has been appointed executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, the organization announced Friday. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appointed
  1. set
  2. nominated
  3. designated
  4. assigned
  5. named
  6. constituted
  7. picked
  8. commissioned
Verb
  • But the one person who really set the whole endeavour in motion was Lenain’s beloved uncle Farid, a gay and HIV-positive man who passed away in 2013.
    — Michael-Oliver Harding, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • For Round 2, Sam brings in artists Kiana, Lisa, and Caldwell, and sets them up with easels.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
Definition of set
Verb
  • Readers nominated 30 restaurants with top-notch nachos in Charlotte and the surrounding area, then narrowed down the field to the Top 2 spots across four rounds and thousands of votes.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2026
  • Taylor Swift Has Competed for Similar Honors Despite her reputation as one of the defining songwriters of her generation, Swift has never been nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of nominated
Verb
  • The White Sox designated him for assignment and traded him to the Washington Nationals during Opening Day week this year.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 July 2026
  • This area is designated a blue zone because of its high percentage of residents aged 90 and older, a statistic that has remained consistent over the past 150 years.
    — Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026
Definition of designated
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  • Rampersad, a sergeant who was believed to have been killed in Friday's attacks, was assigned to the 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • The personal finance site then assigned the cities a score out of 100.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of assigned
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  • Harvick, who on May 19th was named to the latest class in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame and will be inducted next January, believes his first Brickyard 400 win on August 3, 2003, served as the launching pad to his Hall of Fame career.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
  • Jürgen Klopp has been named as head coach of Germany’s men’s national soccer team, the German Football Association announced Friday.
    — Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Definition of named
Verb
  • And because God is Spirit, our identity is wholly spiritual, constituted of all the qualities of God.
    — Leslie Revilock, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2026
  • But Boasberg said that the State Department’s argument clashed with its own assessment of what constituted a foreign sovereign threat under the policy.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of constituted
Verb
  • Smith was on the 11-member search committee that picked the finalist candidates and weeded Epstein out of the list of top 20 candidates.
    — Austin Horn July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • The six states picked to be first together tell the story of who the Democratic party is, said Debbie Dingell, a congresswoman from Michigan, urging members to not read too much into who was given the first slot.
    — Maham Javaid, NPR, 24 July 2026
Definition of picked
Verb
  • In one of Kent Nishimura’s photographs of the White House press corps, which The New Yorker commissioned, the correspondent Beni Harmony readies herself for a segment featuring the President and the First Lady.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
  • Nobody knows quite who commissioned it, or why Diana wore it that night.
    — Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026
Definition of commissioned

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