How to Use nominate in a Sentence
nominate
verb
- We nominated her for player of the year.
- Someone has to tell her the truth—I nominate you.
- We expect the party to nominate him for president.
- The President nominated her for Attorney General.
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The 61-year-old was first nominated to the Board last year.
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Ed O'Keefe,
CBS News,
12 May 2023
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This is the first time the pitcher has been nominated by MLB.
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Julian McWilliams,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Sep. 2023
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Yeah, we’ve been nominated a few times and gone and won.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2023
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All three are nominated for best artist, best song and best video.
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Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
19 Oct. 2023
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The show, nominated for 12 Tony awards, cost around $16 million to put on.
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Brittany Natale,
Redbook,
10 May 2023
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The album was nominated for album of the year and won best rap album.
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Astrid Kayembe,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2023
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At the 2022 Game Awards, Stray was nominated for best game of the year and won independent game.
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Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Mar. 2024
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Wallen is nominated for the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at this week’s awards.
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Jon Freeman,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2023
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While the title didn’t get a great reception, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year.
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Alex Gurley,
Peoplemag,
15 Mar. 2024
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Jack Lew's been nominated, but the Senate hasn't even held a hearing on that yet.
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Nbc Universal,
NBC News,
8 Oct. 2023
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While at Scrubs, the show was nominated for five Emmy Awards.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2024
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Bening is nominated for the award again this year for her role as Diana Nyad in Nyad.
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Hannah Sacks,
Peoplemag,
5 Mar. 2024
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Three current or former Utahns have been nominated for Emmy Awards — one of them for the first time.
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Scott D. Pierce,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
12 July 2023
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He was nominated for a second time in the same category in 2021 for his role in The Little Things.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2024
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They were nominated another six times in the next 10 years.
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Ashraya Gupta,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2023
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In other words: Only one male artist, Jon Batiste, was nominated for each of those awards.
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Justin Curto,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2023
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The movie was nominated for Best Picture and Bullock won an Oscar for her work.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
14 Aug. 2023
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He has been nominated 17 times for the show, and a posthumous award would give him a seventh Emmy win for the sketch series.
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Carolyn Giardina,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 June 2023
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For his work, Lowenthal was nominated for best performance at The Game Awards that year.
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Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2023
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Danes earned two of her three Emmys for her lead role in Showtime’s Homeland, for which she was nominated five times.
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Lesley Goldberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Mar. 2024
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It was also nominated for, but lost, the record of the year competition.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2024
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To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
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Darren Sabedra,
The Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2024
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The singer-songwriter has won nine Grammys in the last five years and is nominated for two more awards at the ceremony, set for Feb. 4.
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Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Dec. 2023
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If there was ever a time for the Democrats to nominate a female candidate for president, this is it.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
17 July 2024
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But Lisa, why did some Republicans again nominate Jordan to be the speaker of the house on Friday?
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
9 Jan. 2023
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Billie Eilish’s first two albums were nominated for Album of the Year (and her debut won the award!), so she’ll get nominated.
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Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
14 Oct. 2024
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