nominate
verb (used with object)
to propose (someone) for appointment or election to an office.
am nominating
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present progressiveof nominate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court,” the president said on Twitter.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2022
I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2022
I am nominating Bill Shaikin to take over baseball operations for our ruined Dodgers franchise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2016
Every man ought thus to say to himself I am nominating a consul who is to cope with the general Hannibal.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Titus Livius
I am nominating a man not a name.
From The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak by Gerald Stanley Lee
