NOMINATE Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

nominate

verb

ˈnä-mə-ˌnāt

as in to name

to give a name to this first drawing, which we'll nominate as Plan A, shows how the house would look with the smaller annex

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as in to appoint

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty the U.S. Constitution directs the president to nominate ambassadors

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Recent Examples of nominate Oscar nominated for The Secret Agent which won him a best actor award last year at Cannes, Moura is already on board as one of The Outsider’s executive producers. —

ARTnews.com, 15 May 2026 That might be why Claude was nominated and then chosen. —

Joshua Dudley, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026 The 21-year-old right-back has been one of Brentford’s standout performers this season with showings leading to him being nominated for the Premier League Young Player of the Year award earlier this week. —

Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 15 May 2026 Notably, Gęsicka is the first artist to be nominated for an exhibition featuring works produced with the help of generative AI. —

News Desk, Artforum, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for nominate

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The right-back was likely to feature in coach Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad, which is being named on May 22, but the door has now creaked open for one of his rivals for that position — and specifically Trent Alexander-Arnold.

— The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Around a century ago, in New York, a white starlet named Irene Delroy got a hot tip from her maid, who was Black.

— Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026