nominating

verb

present participle of nominate
1
as in naming
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 appointing
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 nominating Voters also will be nominating candidates for the entire state Legislature, where Republicans hold a roughly 40-vote majority in the 400-member House and outnumber Democrats in the Senate 16-8. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 And in the event that Chris Hansen is indeed the role that finally lands the actor a nomination, in a very literal sense, the Academy will also be nominating him for The Odyssey. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026 At the same time, Democrats and independents are nominating outsider candidates, some aligned with democratic socialist agendas over establishment candidates, in a sign of voter backlash against the status quo. — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Trump consistently criticized former Fed Chair Jerome Powell for the same reason after nominating him to the role in 2017. — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Julian Epstein wrote Democrats have lost their moral authority by nominating El-Sayed. — NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026 Today, while not nominating himself for said CNN editorial board, Emanuel made sure to avoid all that. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026 Establishment Democrats say nominating El-Sayed is too much of a risk because some of his positions could be painted as extreme. — Tamara Keith, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026 Multiple candidates have already hopped into the race to replace him, though the process for nominating a new candidate remains largely unclear. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nominating
  1. naming
  2. appointing
  3. calling
  4. assigning
  5. designating
  6. labeling
  7. dubbing
  8. terming
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  • The board of Goldman Sachs has held talks about naming COO and President John Waldron the bank's new CEO as soon as next year, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday , citing people familiar with the matter.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The State Department condemned the aid convoy strike without naming who was responsible.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Other actions have triggered further suspicions, including that, like CBS News, changes would be afoot for CNN, including appointing Weiss to oversee that network as well.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Puma is reshaping two areas of its senior leadership, appointing Nike veteran Steve Cecchini to lead global sports marketing while chief commercial officer Matthias Baeumer prepares to step down from the company’s management board.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • Bass assailed Raman over the video, accusing the councilmember of calling the city’s police officers fascist liars.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Anyone with information about the man’s location is asked to contact police by calling 816-234-5330 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of calling
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  • Think about what the AI will need to disclose before assigning the call.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Matter is never worthless, but assigning it a price does not necessarily make its environmental and social costs disappear.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
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  • The ballot measure also would make a major change to gubernatorial recall elections by automatically designating the lieutenant governor as the replacement.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In July, the Drug Enforcement Agency proposed temporarily designating 7-OH above a certain threshold of potency as Schedule I, the category for drugs that carry the most risk without any medical benefit.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
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  • Collecting and manually labeling examples that cover all these conditions is therefore difficult and expensive.
    — Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Although heavily implied, officers at the news conference stopped short of labeling Betkouski as a suspect in the Tylenol murders.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of labeling
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  • The new live features include a new co-hosting function in which two creators can appear on the same stream together, and a live auto-dubbing tool that automatically translates speech in real time.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The platform also carries premium-quality subtitles and dubbing in more than 12 Asian languages, among them English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and Marathi.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dubbing
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  • Curren Price, who has held the District 9 seat for 13 years, is terming out.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The five-member governing body is guaranteed at least one new face, with four candidates vying for the open 4th District seat now that Doug Chaffee will be terming out at the end of the year.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
Definition of terming

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