The phrase "a second nod" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a second acknowledgment or agreement, often in a context where someone is confirming or agreeing to something again.
Example: "After the initial agreement, she gave a second nod to show her continued support for the project."
Alternatives: "a second acknowledgment" or "a second agreement".
Eh? Also Columbus, and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, also gets a second nod, following a tip yesterday on Twitter from @stpaulspot.
In a second nod to the seductive growth of China, AsiaInfo (ASIA) also just reported terrific quarterly earnings.
They are up against Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan for BBC Two's Count Arthur Strong; Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong and Tom Basden for Channel 4's Fresh Meat; and Graham Linehan, who gets a second nod for Channel 4's The IT Crowd.
Democrats may well have given Moore a second nod, but for the campaign finance report filed by the Republican candidate for Governor, sitting Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie.
A second nod came the following year in the Best Video from a Film category, for her cover of the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" from the movie of the same name.
Mr. Gordon, a retired science teacher from Patchogue, N.Y., reached 2.9 million miles in the car this month, and is now about 30,000 miles shy of 3 million miles, and a third nod from Guinness.
"Messi shoots!" A third nod, you eat the last meringue, and, as you do, the entire plastic S-curve, now unbalanced, flips up and over, like a spring, and the white-chocolate soccer ball at the end is released and propelled into the air, high above the white-candy netting.
Maybe that's a skill that comes after a second Grammy nod.
The film's three Oscar nominations included best original song (Aimee Mann's Save Me) and a second screenplay nod for Anderson.
*** "Ready, Freddy?" Terry Hulmes, 64, turns, gives me barely a second to nod, opens the classroom door and ushers me in.
Moore's follow-up, 2014's "Song of the Sea," garnered the director and his international Cartoon Saloon team a second Oscars nod.
