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as in to name
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 to appoint
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 nominate
Zito nominated for award Panthers general manager Bill Zito is once again a finalist for the Jim Gregory GM of the Year Award, the NHL announced Friday.
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Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2025
George Wendt appeared on every episode of Cheers, over eleven seasons, and was nominated for six consecutive Emmys for his work on the show.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 24 May 2025
The 10 towns on the list were nominated by a panel of experts that includes travel writers, newspaper editors and USA TODAY editors, and were then voted on by USA TODAY readers.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2025
Dilley was also nominated for best art direction for Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and The Abyss.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
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Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2025
George Wendt appeared on every episode of Cheers, over eleven seasons, and was nominated for six consecutive Emmys for his work on the show.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 24 May 2025
The 10 towns on the list were nominated by a panel of experts that includes travel writers, newspaper editors and USA TODAY editors, and were then voted on by USA TODAY readers.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2025
Dilley was also nominated for best art direction for Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and The Abyss.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nominate
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President Donald Trump's former lawyer Jay Sekulow has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that the defendants misled the police in the 2022 murder investigation of an employee of Sekulow's.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Anduril has named its next-generation IVAS product EagleEye.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
30 May 2025
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In 2000, he was appointed NYPD commissioner by Giuliani.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2025
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Later, as mayor, Giuliani appointed him to head the New York City Department of Corrections in 1998.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2025
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However, today most young people rarely call each other.—
Andrea Wigfield,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2023
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Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
14 Feb. 2023
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Deputy Prosecutors Tim Brown and Lindsey Lanham were assigned.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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When fully staffed, a forecast office typically assigns rotating shifts to 12 or 15 operational workers in order to cover a complete 24-hour schedule.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
31 May 2025
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In spite of its phonetics, apparently the term is not Yiddish, but a neologism declared by a French writer of comedic phantasms to be German and intended to designate an absurd, unfathomable object that can serve all kinds of purposes.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Right Now Each committee designates a rapporteur to lead the drafting.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Nothing provided on this site constitutes tax advice.—
Andrew Rosen,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Even as the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders warned Redstone that any deal with Trump could constitute a violation of federal bribery laws, some CBS News staffers took McMahon’s exit as a sign that a settlement could be imminent.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
28 May 2025
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For decades, the set of remains were dubbed Scattered Man John Doe until New Jersey State Police teamed up with the Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center to identified the person.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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The temperatures for late May, even this far north, have plummeted, making the inhospitable terrain of northern Finland even tougher for the Finnish, Swedish and British soldiers halfway through joint live-fire exercises, dubbed Northern Strike 125, in Europe's largest training ground, Rovajärvi.—
Ellie Cook — reporting from Rovajärvi, northern Finland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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The investor is entitled to regular payments for the duration of the loan, with the value of those payments determined by the bond yield.—
Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt,Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
19 May 2025
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An employee, however, is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries the employee sustains going to or coming from work, absent extraordinary circumstances.—
Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2025
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“Nominate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nominate. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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