are designating
- present progressive of designate.
Example Sentences
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Some districts, including Montgomery County in Maryland, are designating the days as “Professional Learning Days,” when teachers must work but students do not attend classes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
Looking at the distribution of EMUs could help officials to pinpoint the boundaries of those areas, or to make sure they are designating enough waters to capture all the biogeographic diversity.
From Nature ● Jan. 2, 2017
Canadian special forces advising Iraqi troops are designating targets “on a case-by-case basis,” said Ashley Lemire, a spokeswoman for the Canadian defense ministry.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2015
"These are areas which other countries are designating national parks and yet we don't seem to have the legislative or political framework to protect ours and as a result we're losing them."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2012
By play we are designating, no longer what is done fruitlessly, but whatever is done spontaneously and for its own sake, whether it have or not an ulterior utility.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
