certificating

present participle of certificate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for certificating
Verb
  • As officials inch closer to certifying primary election results in the race for California's next governor as well as the mayor of its largest city, frontrunners appeared to continue to emerge in two of the state's key races.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Los Angeles County election officials are expected to continue updating vote totals in the coming weeks before certifying the election.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • In March 2024, the New England Commission of Higher Education, which is responsible for accrediting colleges and universities in the Northeast, created guidelines for colleges that want to implement these programs.
    Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • Though framed as a request for information, Levine’s letter signals that Florida’s campaign against accrediting bodies — once focused on general university oversight — is expanding into medicine, one of the most tightly regulated sectors of higher education.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Both resolutions, ratifying the clerk-treasurer’s office policies and procedures and the public comment policy, will be brought back up at the council’s July meeting.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The museum’s security staff organized separately, in 2022, ratifying their inaugural contract in 2024 following a twelve-day strike.
    News Desk, Artforum, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • Expanding conventional nuclear capacity requires long permitting cycles, complex financing and fuel supply chains that are often unreliably global.
    Brigitte Bren, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • Scotto highlighted that Kinetik has purpose-built its system for sour gas handling, giving it an edge over new competitors that may face permitting delays of at least three years to build acid gas injection wells.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • This would not be an ordinary meetup because, besides sundry individual tasks, the three had important business to accomplish together—namely, chartering a day-boat cruise in Puerto Rico for spring break.
    Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The incoming team's portion of the cost was $32 million, including chartering the ship and loading and unloading the gear.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • The lawyer of the future may increasingly resemble an architect, physician, or strategic advisor whose value lies not in generating work product but in validating, interpreting, and applying expertise.
    Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Rather than pursuing maximum standoff distances, the effort focused on validating target discrimination, environmental stability, and detection precision from mobile maritime platform, according to a press release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Big 12 administrators also met to consider sanctioning Texas Tech or Sorsby.
    Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The Oklahoma attorney general’s letter rejected the idea that the Big 12 sanctioning Texas Tech would represent antitrust violations.
    Justin Williams, New York Times, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Senators later adopted Amendment 1 before approving the bill.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Finland’s parliament on Wednesday voted to lift a decades-old ban on nuclear weapons, approving a major defense policy shift aimed at aligning the country more closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) deterrence strategy.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
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“Certificating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/certificating. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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