- present participle of designate.
designating
Example Sentences
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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
Anthropic, supported by Microsoft, sued the Department of Defense for designating it a supply-chain risk.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Not Anthropic, which is suing the Defense Department for designating it a supply-chain risk, threatening its relationships with other customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
“What were your instructions,” Eldon Rosen asked, “if you wound up designating a human as android?”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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