decertify
verb
Examples of decertify in a Sentence
Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 4 Apr. 2024
Key Background Trump endorsed Steen as an opponent to Vos in 2022, after Vos refused continuous calls by Trump to decertify President Joe Biden’s election win in 2020.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
The veiled threat against Green’s attorneys fueled a gun-violence restraining order the police department filed against McNamara alongside a petition to decertify him as a police officer in California.
—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
The 2021 law that first created a mechanism for the state to decertify police and deputies only took effect last year.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
The other two demands were that the university resist calls to suspend and/or decertify the Palestine Solidarity Committee and that the university affirm its commitment to the freedom of thought.
—NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
After the 2020 presidential election, Johnson was an architect of congressional efforts to overturn the results, not only voting to decertify the results, but galvanizing House Republicans to join a lawsuit in Texas to challenge the outcome, and espousing a conspiracy theory.
—CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
Buck said that most House Republicans had voted to decertify the Electoral College results, as Johnson did.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board blocked a vote to decertify the United Mine Workers of America at Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
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1918, in the meaning defined above
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decertify
transitive verb
Note: The National Labor Relations Board will decertify a union after an election in which the majority of members do not support the union or after participation in an illegal strike.
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