certificating

verb

present participle of certificate
as in certifying

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for certificating
  1. certifying
  2. accrediting
  3. ratifying
  4. permitting
  5. chartering
  6. validating
  7. sanctioning
  8. approving
Verb
  • Election Day is over, but the work continues in Fulton County as officials move toward verifying ballots and certifying the results of the November 3 general election.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Late last month, the DOJ sued Alaska, seeking to block the state from certifying the result of its Senate race if the Republican incumbent doesn’t win.
    — Jen Fifield, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of certifying
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  • Pandemic fueled network’s growth ACCS is an accrediting body and the oldest network of classical Christian schools.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Auburn’s trustees are asserting that their authority supersedes not only faculty expertise, but professional norms, disciplinary standards, and even accrediting bodies.
    — Beth Davis Sramek, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of accrediting
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  • Hence, the National Players Basketball Association plans to talk with the NBA about ratifying the CBA to alter spending restrictions.
    — Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The European Union and the United States took one ultra-laborious step forward in ratifying their bilateral trade deal in late June.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 23 July 2026
Definition of ratifying
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  • The measure speeds permitting approval under the California Environmental Quality Act by placing deadlines on government agencies to issue or deny permits within a year.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • With the extension, FilmLA officials say the pilot program provides continuity while the city reviews other permitting approaches.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of permitting
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  • Jettly Jettly was designed to simplify the act of chartering a private plane.
    — Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The daily cost of chartering a Very Large Crude Carrier in the region rose to more than $1 million in late September according toBloomberg.
    — David Faris, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of chartering
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  • The special report has been cited in thousands of academic papers, in legislative testimony and in media coverage validating carbon capture and storage as a realistic solution to global warming.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In addition to late-arriving mail ballots, the California secretary of state told ABC News that there is an arduous process of counting mail ballots and validating voters' signatures, as each envelope signature must match the signatures on file.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of validating
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  • The lobbying continued after the law was enacted, prosecutors said, with the US sanctioning more than a dozen Hong Kong and Chinese officials after 2020.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
  • John Probst, president of NASCAR Event Management, said the sanctioning body continues to search for additional manufacturers and noted that an appealing entry point could coincide with a new engine platform planned between 2030 and 2032.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of sanctioning
Verb
  • In the wake of Florida voters approving the sweeping property tax cuts in Amendment 3, Central Florida communities are bracing for shakeups to their municipal budgets.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
  • In approving the temporary stop, Chutkan said Virginia and the District of Columbia had shown the immediacy of the construction would cause real harm to the plaintiffs.
    — MATTHEW DALY, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of approving
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