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 For 16 consecutive years, the biggest brand in the genre couldn’t even get nominated — from 2007 through 2022. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026 Fabares was twice nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026 Rene Malo, the Quebec film pioneer best known for producing Denys Arcand’s Oscar-nominated The Decline of the American Empire and Micheline Lanctôt’s Sonatine, a winner at the Venice International Film Festival, has died. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026 Malo is best known as the producer of Denys Arcand’s The Decline of the American Empire, which was nominated for the Best International Film Oscar. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026 He was nominated for three Emmys for his lead performance and won a pair of Golden Globes. — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026 All won in the space of six seasons with Keegan, as nominated by Liverpool’s legendary manager Bill Shankly himself, the essential presence. — Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026 Also in 2002, Graham was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 He was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. — CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

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This story will be updated if additional responses are received from the companies named in the complaint.

— Dennis Valera, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Nicole Chung is the author of the award-winning memoir A Living Remedy, which was named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen other outlets.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of named

Verb

In 2023, at age 38, he had been appointed to a professorship in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, becoming the youngest Black professor in the institution’s 800-year history.

— Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Glasner sought the advice of former Forest midfielder Andy Reid — who has been appointed as the head of football development this summer — to ask which of the young players were ready to be involved in Portugal.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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Police reinforcements were called late Saturday to the temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers in Sintiki, a few kilometers (miles) from the Bulgarian border, after migrants threw rocks at guards, according to police.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
However, the displays produced artifact images called burn-in and the brightness of the OLED displays degraded quickly when the displays were operated at high brightness levels when used in the daytime.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of called

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Judge Michael Chitty was then assigned to consider the motion from Anthony's attorneys asking for a retrial in killing of Austin Metcalf.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
The league has had players who were assigned female at birth and later came out as transgender or nonbinary.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of assigned

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Still, some oncologists start their patients off slowly on any of a variety of cancer drugs, although there may be concerns about lawsuits by a patient or their survivors over a prescription of lower-than-labeled dosages.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
The president labeled the Strait a new territory in an image of a map posted on Truth Social.

— Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of labeled

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In 1970 people with tenure or tenure-track jobs constituted 73% of those teaching at colleges and universities.

— Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
The waters around Sicily, which was colonized by the ancient Greeks and later conquered by the Romans around 240 BC, constituted one of the ancient world’s most important trade routes.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of constituted

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Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have effectively dubbed themselves amateur yeoman, putting the ultrarichs’ hobby of tending to the land in the spotlight.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
The intense 2015-2016 El Niño was widely dubbed Godzilla, as people struggled to compare it to the very strong El Niño in 1997-1998.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of dubbed

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In a bid to control traffic through the narrow waterway, Iran has designated routes going through their territorial waters.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
As part of the effort, the Treasury Department designated nearly 60 individuals, entities, and vessels accused of helping Iran evade previously existing sanctions.

— Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026

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