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How to Use designation in a Sentence

designation

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  • Though many people call her a liberal, it is not a designation she uses herself.
  • The organization keeps meticulous public records of all the sites around the world that have earned the designation.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Activists fear that the idea is receding due to official concern over the likely response from Iran to any designation.
    — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But a flurry of bills that some members of Congress hope to push by year’s end focus on changes to the laws that govern mining and critical mineral designations.
    — Ashley C. Nunes, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Changing your beneficiary designations is the only way to ensure that happens.
    — Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Son uses the financial power of the attorney mom signed naming him her agent to change beneficiary designations and account titles to assure that most of the estate passes to him alone.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But the College Board said those are part of the class and, if deleted, the course will not be able to carry the AP designation.
    — Leslie Postal, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Once prospective founders are set on their mission, the next task is gaining a 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS.
    — Richard Nalley, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The designation was in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli troops in Gaza.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • This designation is based on the methods Hamas employs in pursuit of its goals.
    — Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Toney was ruled out of the Ravens game with a hip injury and was listed as questionable in the team’s final designation last week.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In music, the Times gave SZA its designation of best album.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Most moved to the medium grouping—and one category moved to the high designation in just four years.
    — Tensie Whelan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Also, don’t let the Y.A. designation fool you: this book is a great read for everyone.
    — The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
  • The designation is meant to expedite the process of gaining FDA approval.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 27 June 2023
  • These names bring life to the goals of the mission and the dreams of the people creating them, and carve out a designation to make a mark on the history of space exploration.
    — Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Twenty-one schools received the Green Ribbon designation from the state.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The state has labeled it a level 2 breach risk - a designation in the middle of the three-prong scale that means there is potential for dam failure.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The most recent expression was eight years old, which is well beyond the four years required by the BIB designation.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
  • But the designations are informal and so loose as to be nonexistent at times.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • The city of Geneva authorized a local landmark designation for the site in 2018.
    — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • And the wine must be tasted every year before it is put on the market—this designation is not a blanket approval.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 6 June 2023
  • In November 2022, with the eviction pending, the home won the historic designation from the city over the new owner’s objection.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Oso has even earned the Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand designation.
    — Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024
  • Two restaurants — Sushi Ginza Onodera and n/naka — both dropped from a two-star designation to one star.
    — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Supermoon is a more recent designation, applied when the moon is both full and at a month’s closest approach to Earth.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The designation represents the top 2 percent of cancer centers in the country.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Hobbs, a Democrat, has openly urged Biden to issue a designation.
    — Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Cinco Jotas gives each pig five acres of space, even though the black-label designation requires only two acres per pig.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Despite carrying a lower number designation, the new 4 is said to be sized and priced above the 5, which will be much closer to the original city-going 4.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023

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