CERTIFICATES Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of certificate

as in certifications

a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something a certificate will be awarded to each person who completes the course in lifesaving

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verb

present tense third-person singular of certificate

as in certifies

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Recent Examples of certificates

Noun

The institute also plans to work with CUNY, which enrolls roughly 500,000 students, Simmons said, on programs such as add-on AI certificates. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026 With proof that the reporting party had control of the key, defenders scrambled because the same key could be used to sign unauthorized certificates that would be trusted by millions of servers worldwide. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 Community colleges in regional semiconductor hubs are now offering apprenticeships, certificates, and other training to enable people to update their skills or pivot to new career paths in the industry. — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2026 Public-key cryptography is embedded across TLS, VPNs, APIs, certificates, identity systems, software signing, cloud workloads and machine-to-machine communications. — Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Workers can earn certificates in a variety of fields, from food service to healthcare, according to the Census Bureau. — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Oeko-Tex also says a quarter of its certificates are retested through its quality control program. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for certificates

Noun

To prepare for a scuba diver’s worst nightmare, Abrams earned the necessary certifications.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Boards and associations, such as the American Nurses Association, can issue certifications, as can private firms like Google.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of certifications

Verb

That’s the regulatory body that certifies law enforcement officers in the state.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026
If the judge certifies the extradition on any or all of the charges, the Tate brothers' legal team can challenge it by asking for judicial review and seeking a stay of extradition.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of certifies

Noun

The documents also included physical descriptions of the accused.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
The conversational layer may be what a borrower sees, but the difficult work happens deeper in the stack, where documents, rules, calculations, decisions, and transaction states have to remain connected.

— Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

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The federal program also permits scholarships for qualifying educational expenses that can benefit eligible public school students.

— Claudia Nachtigal, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026
Florida law permits news-media witnesses at executions while prohibiting cameras in the observation room.

— Richard Nichols, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of permits

Verb

Instead, party task forces (known as work teams) are mobilized to draft the verdict, colleagues from their workplace endorse it, and then a committee at a higher level of administration ratifies it.

— ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
The private sector’s role is to build the commercial reality that policy later ratifies.

— Hany Naeem, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of ratifies

Verb

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which accredits Shedd, said there were no plans to require incident reports for the belugas, as their deaths were due to preexisting medical conditions.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
From now on, the agency that accredits nearly every university in the state will be known as The Commission on Colleges and Universities.

— Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of accredits

Verb

Spending time with him on two occasions validates Diplo’s assertion.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
This is even more exciting considering that this research validates teaming the JWST with radio telescopes to detect and track FRBs back to their points of origin.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026

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