- present participle of designate.
designating
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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
Beyond that, they were also beloved by critics and audiences alike, with “WALL-E” deservedly earning a spot in the Criterion Collection in 2022, designating the film as a significant work within the medium of cinema.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
A court blocked the Pentagon from designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Altman felt strongly that the risk of either triggering the Defense Production Act or designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk wasn’t good for the country, according to people familiar with their conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
He never declared which of these times we were to abide by, however—which was curious, considering how much he’d talked about the importance of designating a hard deadline and sticking to it no matter what.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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