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  • adjective scheduled
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slate.

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  • Rank-and-file psychiatrists did eventually figure out that a big change was afoot, and much of the ensuing consternation focused on another word slated for elimination—neurosis, which, the new Committee on Nomenclature argued, should not appear in DSM-III because it “assumed…an underlying process of intrapsychic conflict resulting in symptom formation.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • I'll always welcome a game that strives for a different look, but with the title slated for this year after already being pushed back from 2008, one wonders just how much time and effort has been expended, and whether that will affect the rest of the game's quality. login now to post a comment

    Destructoid 2009

  • Arizona-based Solar Bullet LLC is proposing a new 220mph bullet train slated to run from Tuscon to Phoenix.

    Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Solar Train 2009

  • In addition, we have several other titles slated for launch in 2011.

    unknown title 2011

  • Also included among the titles slated for release in 2011 are BOLT, MEET THE ROBINSONS, TIM

    Gizmodo Kat Hannaford 2011

  • Also included among the titles slated for release in 2011 are BOLT, MEET THE ROBINSONS, TIM

    Gizmodo Kat Hannaford 2011

  • The titles slated for release in 2011 are of the more contemporary variety and include

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Also included among the titles slated for release in 2011 are BOLT, MEET THE ROBINSONS, TIM

    Gizmodo Kat Hannaford 2011

  • God of War 3 is an exclusive PS3 title slated for release in 2009.

    1UP RSS feed 2009

  • God of War 3 is an exclusive PS3 title slated for release in 2009.

    1UP RSS feed 2009

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  • Probably because when I first went to school we had slates on which to write, 'to slate' someone was to write their name on a slate for wrongdoing.

    'Slated' implied public recognition that you had done something wrong that they would write on the slate for all to see.

    October 9, 2011