APPOINTING Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

appointing

verb

present participle of appoint

as in choosing

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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as in nominating

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 appointing Earlier attempts at appointing an AI CEO—NetDragon's virtual executive Tang Yu or Dictador's humanoid CEO Mika—never approached real autonomy; both functioned largely as decision-support experiments. — Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Keegan managed Shearer both at Newcastle and England, immediately appointing his striker as captain for the national team. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 20 July 2026 This is one of the first announcements WhatsApp has made after appointing a new CEO. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026 State law tasked the City Council with appointing a replacement to finish out Lyles’ term ending in December 2027. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026 Now Starmer is going due to unpopularity, largely self-inflicted, after policy errors including scrapping the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, hitting small farmers with inheritance tax increases and appointing a close friend of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as ambassador to Washington. — Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026 The schism prompted Faye to fire Sonko and dissolve his government before appointing new ministers. — Jenny Vaughan, semafor.com, 24 June 2026 Rather than automatically appointing Aiello, supervisors chose a competitive appointment process to fill the vacancy until the November 2028 election. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 The country is now on the verge of appointing its sixth prime minister in just seven years, amid political upheaval and a stubbornly weak economy that has left many voters frustrated. — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 23 June 2026

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America’s health care challenges will not be solved by choosing between primary care and specialty care.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026
And yet, the reasoning behind choosing a teenaged shortstop still holds true today.

— John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026

Definition of choosing

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Some moderate Democrats fear nominating El-Sayed would put their party's hold on the Michigan Senate seat in jeopardy.

— Jay Stahl, USA Today, 20 July 2026
Multiple candidates have already hopped into the race to replace him, though the process for nominating a new candidate remains largely unclear.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of nominating

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Given the scope and scale of the collection, tell me about the process of selecting the 331 works that would come to the Clark.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026
Voters cast ballots by selecting their candidates on a touch screen, and the machine prints out a piece of paper with a QR code on it.

— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026

Definition of selecting

Verb

But because researchers observed eating habits rather than assigning diets, the study could not prove the MIND diet itself prevented decline.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
While a boss may focus on assigning tasks, meeting deadlines and hitting performance goals, leaders think beyond their to-do lists.

— Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 24 July 2026

Definition of assigning

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So, hotels may have obtained a financial boost from the tournament but due to setting higher rates than usual, not because of a massive increase in number of guests.

— Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
Retention of messages has also been an issue in the federal government, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio setting some of his Signal chats to auto-delete.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of setting

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Thanks, as always, for the questions … Any chance KU sells the naming rights to any facility to raise money?

— Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
Republican lawmakers have proposed moving the naming duties out of the Attorney General’s Office to nonpartisan legislative analysts, but those efforts have so far been stymied by Democrats.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of naming

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Planning Commission Vice Chair Kerry Harvey asked how much a ballot measure would cost and suggested the city consider designating all data centers as heavy industrial use.

— Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Top-down governance sets the strategic intent and accountability by designating executive sponsorship and ownership, establishing governance councils or review boards and defining AI policies, compliance standards and risk tolerance.

— Sumeet Agrawal, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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