slated 1 of 3

as in expected
being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events slated to arrive at five o'clock

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slated

2 of 3

verb (1)

past tense of slate
as in listed
to put (someone or something) on a list you've been slated for a three o'clock interview

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slated

3 of 3

verb (2)

past tense of slate

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Recent Examples of slated
Adjective
The vessel's next slated voyage, an 11-night trip from Piraeus (Athens), Greece, was canceled. Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Jackson has clearly outperformed his slated 2026 salary. Mike Kaye updated January 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Jan. 2026 The next slated interview, with former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, is on Friday. Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Palisades is slated to resume operations later this year, which would provide the first real-world proof that a decommissioning plant can resume power generation. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026 There is political risk in trying to meaningfully reduce a year budget deficit of roughly $2 trillion that is slated to exceed $3 trillion a decade from now. Josh Boak, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026 It is slated to go up at Memorial Circle, across the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, from the Lincoln Memorial. Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2026 The dozen bus routes slated for elimination this fall to save about $9 million. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026 It is now slated to be ninety thousand square feet, which will double the area of the existing White House. Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026 Currently on sabbatical to work with the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, he is slated to return to the school’s faculty as a marketing professor next year. Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The show is slated for its annual holiday programming lineup later this year. Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 Tesla — The electric vehicle maker's stock advanced more than 6% ahead of the company's Cybercab event slated for after the close. Darla Mercado, Cfp®,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slated
Adjective
  • An expected 30 employees from NYDIG and 250 institutional client relationships will join BitGo, according to a person close to the matter.
    Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • And Fins have a secondary so inexperienced the guys might need asbestos uniforms against the expected torching.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • DeNA, founded in Tokyo in 1999 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, spans mobile games, live-streaming and sports alongside its entertainment business.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Outside the courthouse, Navarrete listed all the documents her client would need for a chance to stay, as his daughter furiously typed them into a cellphone.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Outside a fierce storm lashed down, wind whipped against the wood planks, thunder shook the ground, water streamed through cracks and floated into the shack.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026
  • In the same series of Sunday morning posts, the president also lashed out at Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, for saying his endorsements of Republican candidates in primary elections this year had shown mixed results.
    Jeff Mason, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • So after almost thirty years, his work in late night was coming to an end at the Largo, and his final show was a week before my scheduled C-section.
    Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The deployment is officially described as part of a scheduled rotation, with the George Washington expected to take over responsibilities from the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Hugging Face deal marks the second-largest for Nvidia; the chip company entered a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December.
    Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Deputies entered the home after the three-hour standoff and took the woman into custody without incident, Igoe said.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Tuxedo kitten Paolina bounced onto my chest and licked my fingers.
    Solvej Schou, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Her entire face got licked clean off her head when suburban floodwaters breached the cardboard hull protecting Kath’s basement memorabilia stack a few months before I was born.
    Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • July, which had previously been recorded as a negative 23,000, was revised up sharply by 44,000 to a total net job additions of 21,000.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But hiring remains well below the 166,000 monthly jobs that were the norm in 2023 and 2024, let alone the 491,000 a month recorded during the 2021-22 hiring boom that followed pandemic lockdowns.
    Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
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  • Russia pounded Kyiv for more than 12 hours in a sixth straight night of attacks, killing at least 12 people including six railway workers and an Indian citizen, and devastating civilian districts.
    Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Floods of ‘destructive force’ blast through the canyon As the rain pounded the canyon Saturday, park officials received an alert from the National Weather Service warning of flash flooding in the area.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026

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“Slated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slated. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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