NOMINATED Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

nominated

verb

past tense of nominate

as in named

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 appointed

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 nominated Lawrence would essentially be pulling off the TV equivalent of Steven Soderbergh or Francis Ford Coppola getting nominated for Best Picture twice in the same year. —

Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 May 2026 Palestine 36, which was nominated in six categories, also won Best Screenplay for director Annemarie Jacir and Best Cinematography for Hélène Louvart. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 May 2026 Attorney General William Tong, Treasurer Erick Russell, Comptroller Sean Scanlon, and Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas were all re-nominated. —

Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026 Who is nominated at the 2026 ACM Awards? —

Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026 Chet’la Sebree is the author of Blue Opening, Field Study, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry. —

Literary Hub, 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 Bolles has hit his stride off the field, twice nominated as the Broncos’ Walter Payton Man of the Year award for his work in the community. —

Troy Renck, Denver Post, 9 May 2026 The shop, which has only been in business for seven years, has been nominated for the Eisner Award, which recognizes the best retail shop in the world, for the third time. —

Daily News, 8 May 2026

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An agriculture teacher at Harmony Middle School in Osceola County was named one of five finalists for Florida’s Teacher of the Year award, the Florida Department of Education announced Monday.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2026
After going 12-2 during the season, and getting wins in the playoffs over the Pittsburgh Steelers and then-Oakland Raiders, Morton was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Year.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2026