certificates 1 of 2

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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certificates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of certificate

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Recent Examples of certificates
Noun
Some colleges — like Folsom Lake — offer associate degrees or certificates in artificial intelligence and machine learning. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026 Covid was the underlying cause on 88% of the certificates that mentioned it from 2020 through mid-2022, and that fell to 76% for 2022 as a whole as certifiers more often listed it as a contributing cause. — Jess Steier, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026 The certificates will be hidden at a different location each day and the winner can bring them to the gallery to collect their prize. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026 The certificates, which are limited to one per customer, remain valid for three days following entry of the code. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026 Those figures do not include $9 million in planned capital projects, which are slated to be funded through the selling off of lease certificates, per the district. — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 The earnings test applies to thousands of programs at schools ranging from professional certificates to arts programs at elite universities and seminaries. — Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026 About the Instructor The class was taught by Jane Godshalk, AIFD, who has earned certificates from Longwood Gardens, the Stoas University in the Netherlands, and a fourth level teaching certificate in Sogetsu Ikebana. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 19 Sep. 2026 Under the new agreement, Google will receive environmental attribute certificates (EACs) from a portion (up to 91,000 metric tons) of the steel produced in Stegra’s first year of production. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for certificates
Noun
  • Because space and defense qualification cycles require multiple years of exhaustive safety and performance certifications, switching to a cheaper competitor is highly frictional for a prime contractor.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Microban said Scentry Revive holds Eco Passport by Oeko-Tex and Bluesign certifications.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
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
Noun
  • The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.
    — David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The company was also responsible for processing 70 of the 80 visas and permits that filmmaker Michael Angelo Zervos required in order to set a Guinness World Record by visiting all 195 sovereign countries over a period of 499 days.
    — Matthew Kayser, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Housing shortages sometimes happen when cities can’t issue residential building permits fast enough to keep vacancy rates low and rent high in a secondary market.
    — Justin Donald, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The industry now builds the rooms, charters the shuttles, and saves the yacht seats.
    — Taylor Reilly, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The company charters Explorer-class ships, limiting capacity to roughly 180 travelers.
    — Malika Bowling, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
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
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
Verb
  • Mathematical success validates a relationship between the formalism and what experiments record.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Data from Adobe cross-validates this trend, showing that US retail site traffic driven by AI channels jumped 125% year-on-year between April and June 2026, after soaring 693% year-on-year during the 2025 holiday season.
    — , CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

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“Certificates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/certificates. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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