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
  • During that ratifying convention, Wilson also argued that the franchise should extend broadly, beyond just property owners.
    Jesse Wegman, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Schlittler did allow some traffic before things unraveled in the fifth, permitting a walk and a single to start the inning.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
  • Fixing The Permitting Problem The first barrier states need to address is permitting.
    Tom Bitting, Forbes.com, 26 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
  • At its best, the film rebuffs standard-issue 1950s heteronormativity, validating queerness at a moment when the Motion Picture Production Code forbade explicit reference to it.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
  • The 18-year-old McKenna is from Yukon’s capital of Whitehorse and has been a prolific scorer on both sides of the Canadian border, with his selection validating the projections of the left winger being his age group’s top prospect more than two years ago.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 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 29 Jun. 2026.

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