nominated

verb

past tense of nominate
1
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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2
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 Over the course of her long career, Curtis, 67, has developed a lengthy résumé in film and television, winning numerous accolades along the way, including an Oscar and an Emmy (she’s been nominated for a Grammy too — there’s still time for an EGOT). — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Even = Paweł Pawlikowski, Fatherland Having been previously nominated for Cold War, Pawlikowski comes into the season sporting a Best Director prize from Cannes for his spartan postwar travelogue. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 In February, he was nominated for his first Tony Award for playing Biff Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026 It’s been nominated for best podcast at the Streamy Awards five times. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026 In 2022, he was nominated for Best New Rock Artist at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards. — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2026 In Harlem is nominated for 5 Critics Choice Documentary Awards including Best Documentary, and was the winner of the 2026 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Film Prize, and the Maysles Film Center Albie Award in Harlem. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 His films have gone to Cannes multiple times, and he has been nominated for an International Emmy. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 For Boyd, being nominated is an opportunity to join some of the biggest names in South Florida high school football. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nominated
  1. named
  2. appointed
  3. called
  4. assigned
  5. labeled
  6. constituted
  7. dubbed
  8. designated
Verb
  • In June, Kifowit was named executive director of the Construction Industry Service Corporation, a non-profit labor-management association representing unionized construction trades in Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Kane and Kendall counties.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Housing officials left the student in the room for two weeks after the accuser’s lawsuit publicly named him, prompting a professor to call the arrangement a security risk.
    — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of named
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  • Then last month, Kwan appointed former Rwandan Minister of State for Infrastructure Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye as RFO’s principal of emerging markets and business development to drive investment flows between Asia and Africa.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • He was appointed by Commissioner Richard Lara to serve on the city’s charter review committee and recently resigned from the city’s planning and zoning board to run for office.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of appointed
Verb
  • Allen drained it to extend Charlotte’s lead to 20, and then found Dennis Schröder for a high-five as Miami called a timeout.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Later, however, a faithful replica, also called the Atlantic, was built.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of called
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  • Witt said that following the speech, FBI Director Kash Patel personally assigned the investigation of a list of former agents, including Floris and Benavides, to the FBI's Kansas City field office.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Witt said it was assigned to him through the FBI's chain of command in July, after FBI Director Kash Patel gave the case to the Kansas City field office.
    — Sophia Vlahakis, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of assigned
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  • Buy only costumes, wigs and props that are labeled flame-resistant or flame-retardent.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The film also features former congressman George Santos participating in a game involving dolls representing liberal stereotypes, a mock gas chamber, and a button labeled Zyklon B, the poison used by the Nazis at their death camps.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of labeled
Verb
  • One of the weirder aspects of the telecom industry, as it’s constituted in the United States right now, is that cell carriers own some of their towers and operate some of their towers.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of constituted
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  • The 53,800-square-foot building, dubbed Le Large, is the passion project of Laurent Dumas, founder and president of the Emerige real estate group and its philanthropic arm, the Emerige Endowment Fund.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Linvill and several other research groups attributed them to Russian operators the research community has dubbed Storm-1516.
    — Shannon Bond, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of dubbed
Verb
  • When Washington in May designated Brazil’s two largest criminal factions, the First Capital Command and the Red Command, as terrorist organizations, Lula warned the labels could become a pretext for American intervention.
    — Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Eight others, including Israel, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, are designated Level 3, urging travelers to reconsider their plans.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of designated

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