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 Readers nominated 30 restaurants with top-notch nachos in Charlotte and the surrounding area, then narrowed down the field to the Top 2 spots across four rounds and thousands of votes. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2026 Taylor Swift Has Competed for Similar Honors Despite her reputation as one of the defining songwriters of her generation, Swift has never been nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 In 2018, after Duke University researcher Barton Haynes nominated him for the Shaw Prize, Fauci proposed another. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2026 The film was nominated for five Oscars, with Angela Bassett’s nomination for best supporting actress marking the first time any actor in a Marvel film was nominated for an Academy Award. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2026 Authorized by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Opportunity Zones are economically distressed communities nominated by states and certified by the Treasury Department. — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 26 July 2026 The 63-year-old was the only member of the cast to be nominated for an Emmy for an episode about her character going blind. — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 The Office, Friends, and Modern Family weren’t even nominated for their final seasons. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 July 2026 The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the documentary prize L’Œil d’or. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nominated
  1. named
  2. appointed
  3. called
  4. assigned
  5. labeled
  6. constituted
  7. dubbed
  8. designated
Verb
  • Cal is a fellow of MacDowell and Yaddo, has been a writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland, and was named a 2022 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 31 July 2026
  • The 180-acre (73-hectare) retreat, which is run by the Navy and guarded by Marines, has a cabin named Aspen that’s reserved for the president, plus about a dozen other cabins for guests.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of named
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  • After his final deployment, he was appointed director of Missouri’s Show-Me Heroes program, a workforce development partnership between the Missouri National Guard, the governor’s office and the Missouri Division of Workforce Development.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
  • In 2024, Robert Hur, a special prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department concluded that although Biden brought some classified documents to his home, that criminal charges were not warranted.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 25 July 2026
Definition of appointed
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  • Johnny then becomes bonded to a supernatural demon called the Spirit of Vengeance and is able to transform into a flaming, skeletal biker.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • Josh Smead runs an architecture business called Liberty Design Development with his wife and hails from Liberty.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
Definition of called
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  • He was assigned to Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, a focal point for the military’s buildup in South Vietnam.
    — Nicole Borman, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • The Fed chairman has assigned task forces to review different topics including the central bank’s approach to inflation.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 29 July 2026
Definition of assigned
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  • The peptide preparation, labeled COP3, raised serum testosterone and cyclic AMP in male mice and increased the activity of penile nitric oxide synthase, an enzyme closely associated with erectile function.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
  • It wasn’t meant to be seen as brave (as it was bizarrely labeled).
    — JP Saxe, Variety, 28 July 2026
Definition of labeled
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  • And because God is Spirit, our identity is wholly spiritual, constituted of all the qualities of God.
    — Leslie Revilock, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2026
  • But Boasberg said that the State Department’s argument clashed with its own assessment of what constituted a foreign sovereign threat under the policy.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of constituted
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  • The latter two heat waves have been caused by a thick ridge of high pressure — dubbed a heat dome by the weather service — that has wielded influence for weeks.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • Season four will follow that trend and has been dubbed Queen of the Damned.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
Definition of dubbed
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  • The White Sox designated him for assignment and traded him to the Washington Nationals during Opening Day week this year.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 July 2026
  • This area is designated a blue zone because of its high percentage of residents aged 90 and older, a statistic that has remained consistent over the past 150 years.
    — Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026
Definition of designated

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