as in nominees
one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty
the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet
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Recent Examples of appointees
The court, in a 6-3 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts (with the three Democratic appointees dissenting) ruled that the firing was legal, overturning the 91-year-old precedent in the process.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
Trump has previously expressed chided his own appointees for some of their rulings.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
Just appointees in Washington deciding who's in and who's out.
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Arkansas Online,
27 June 2026
Political appointees may soon have more control over the information and research coming out of the CDC under a proposal to add a separate science office atop the agency.
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O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
26 June 2026
The nine board members, who need to have prior experience in economics, finance, or housing, are mayoral appointees and serve terms between two and four years.
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Chad De Guzman,
Time,
26 June 2026
That was one of the takeaways from recent probes into the condition and usage of federal buildings by a bipartisan board of presidential appointees tasked with evaluating the government’s real estate portfolio.
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Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
Here the six Republican appointees said that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act does not allow people to bring claims for money damages against the individual correctional officers who are subject to the act’s obligations.
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Leah Litman,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
In February, three of them—including, much to Trump’s fury, two of his own appointees—joined with the liberals to slap down his assertion of emergency power to impose tariffs.
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Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
26 June 2026
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
Trump has previously expressed chided his own appointees for some of their rulings.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
Just appointees in Washington deciding who's in and who's out.
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Arkansas Online,
27 June 2026
Political appointees may soon have more control over the information and research coming out of the CDC under a proposal to add a separate science office atop the agency.
—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
26 June 2026
The nine board members, who need to have prior experience in economics, finance, or housing, are mayoral appointees and serve terms between two and four years.
—
Chad De Guzman,
Time,
26 June 2026
That was one of the takeaways from recent probes into the condition and usage of federal buildings by a bipartisan board of presidential appointees tasked with evaluating the government’s real estate portfolio.
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Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
Here the six Republican appointees said that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act does not allow people to bring claims for money damages against the individual correctional officers who are subject to the act’s obligations.
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Leah Litman,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
In February, three of them—including, much to Trump’s fury, two of his own appointees—joined with the liberals to slap down his assertion of emergency power to impose tariffs.
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Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appointees
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The nominees will also be up against former Congressman Greg Lopez, who left the Republican Party in January to run for governor as an unaffiliated candidate.
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Backrooms stars Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve as well as Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell.
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There were 13,350 ballots cast in the USC voting, and two candidates received at least 75% of the vote.
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Rather than replacing traditional physics calculations, the machine learning system acts as a filter, allowing researchers to focus computational resources on the most promising candidates.
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“Appointees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appointees. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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