designating
- present participle of designate.
Example Sentences
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On his first day back in office, US President Donald Trump announced he would increase pressure on Mexico and the cartels, including designating the criminal enterprises terrorist groups.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
You can do this by designating a child as an authorized user, which is a person added to a credit-card account by the primary cardholder, although some issuers have age minimums as low as 13.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
That led to the Department of Defense designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk and barring the use of its tools at the Pentagon, following a six-month phase-out.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
The Pentagon has gone beyond declining to buy from Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk, which prevents Anthropic from working as a subcontractor on other Pentagon contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
It contained his own notes on Spassky’s games, jotted in pencil, with comments and question marks designating poor moves, exclamation marks designating good ones.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
