The phrase "almost designated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is nearly assigned or appointed to a specific role or purpose, but not quite finalized.
Example: "The project is almost designated for the new team, pending final approval from management."
Alternatives: "nearly assigned" or "practically appointed".
After that, the spirit realm is almost always designated by being merely half-there.
Every team had a tough guy then; it was almost a designated position, like goalkeeper or outside-half.
Hyksos was in fact probably an Egyptian term for "rulers of foreign lands" (heqa-khase), and it almost certainly designated the foreign dynasts rather than an ethnic group.
The city is actually moving backwards, bulldozing desperately needed social housing such as Elephant & Castle's Heygate Estate to replace it with private flats and a feather-light dusting of (almost meaninglessly designated) affordable homes.
Specifically, "almost never" was designated as "inactive" and all other responses ("1 3 days a month", "1 2 days a week", and "almost everyday") were designated as "active".
In a group of European revelers there is almost always a designated driver, because the penalties are so severe.
Through a clever parliamentary maneuver by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republicans snuck in an amendment that designated almost the entire trillion dollars for use as executive bonuses.
Their study, which was published by the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs in 2013, showed that almost 40percentt of designated drivers didn't abstain from drinking, and 18percentt of them had BAC levels of 0.5 or greater by the end of the night.
The two haplotypes of Selaginella encode two pairs of almost identical 2CP, designated Sm2CPA.1/2 and Sm2CPB.1/2.
The majority (almost one-third) worked in physician offices, 10% worked in hospital outpatient clinics, and almost 8% worked in designated public health centers.
