Thesaurus results for APPOINTEE

appointee

noun

ə-ˌpȯin-ˈtē

Definition of appointee

as in nominee

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet

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Recent Examples of appointee No, the committee is made up of executive branch appointees who report to the president. — Matt Peterson,luke Fountain, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 The referendum language was recommended by the county’s Charter Review Task Force, a board made up mostly of commission appointees that debated options for updating the county’s governing document. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 Garnett, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, also pressed the defense on whether Polymarket users who took the opposite side of Van Dyke’s trades could be considered victims. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2026 Second, those political appointees are often donors with little to no government experience. — Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for appointee

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In such seats, the primary becomes the real election, a dynamic that tends to favor the coronation of extremely polarizing nominees since, typically, that electorate is composed of committed partisans.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
The campaign for the Democratic nominee for governor, David Jolly, declined to comment on what the new opinion meant for the Hope Florida saga.

— Liv Caputo, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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Kristin Pawlik and Wendy Howerton garnered the most votes among the three candidates in the March nonpartisan judicial race, but neither got more than the 50% required to win outright.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
But most Senate Democrats think Colom, a young father, is a stronger candidate in a tough environment for Republicans.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026

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