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 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 As a result, there are usually at least two international docs nominated each year; in the 2023 lineup, all five nominees were from outside the United States. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 The multiple Emmy-nominated Nobody Wants This follows the love story between Bell’s Joanne and Brody’s Noah. — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026 Majidi previously made Oscar history with Children of Heaven (1997), which became the first Iranian film nominated in the international category, then known as best foreign-language film. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026 Rachel McAdams was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Sacha Pfeiffer in the 2015 film, Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 His operas, including Eurydice and Crossing, have been performed everywhere from New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Los Angeles Opera, and the Metropolitan’s Eurydice was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2023. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

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Opening her case, Karmy-Jones walked through the allegations from the six women, who have a lifelong right to anonymity even though they are being named in court.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
The bill in consideration was originally named Ryder’s Law after a 14-year-old carriage horse who collapsed in 2022 and was later euthanized due to cancer.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of named

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In 1921, a small Japanese company called Shimano began making bicycle freewheels in Osaka.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
There are also plans afoot by the French defense procurement agency (DGA) called SNA3G, which are preliminary plans for an eventual replacement of the Suffren-class in the future.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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Other senior church roles include the Dean of the College of Cardinals—a position recently assigned to Cardinal Tagle.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Thousands of vehicles without air conditioning Records obtained by the I-Team also revealed that more than half of the active delivery vehicles assigned in Texas still lack air conditioning.

— Ginger Allen, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of assigned

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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
America was cultural dynamism that constituted soft power, from Hollywood and hip-hop to the once finest university system in the world.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of constituted

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That pad, now dubbed LC-36A, was devastated by a massive explosion during a test back in May, but construction crews have worked 24/7 to try and build it back to launch capability before the end of the year.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
The petition, dubbed No Sidewalk Bots, urges the city to halt the sidewalk robot program until the technology's impact is evaluated and rules can be implemented.

— Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of dubbed

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Around that time, Nusra was designated a terrorist organization by the United States and several other Western governments.

— Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Tagle was designated at the last minute to stand in for Leo at Wednesday's Mass to close out a conference on family ministry.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

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