as in certificate
a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something
submitted the required certifications
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Recent Examples of certification
Labor certification: Employers apply for a labor certification after proving no sufficiently qualified Americans responded to the job postings.
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Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
This is one of the missions originally awarded to United Launch Alliance under the NSSL Phase 2 contracts, but shifted to SpaceX after delays in ULA’s Vulcan certification.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
What is beer made from? Brewers historically have used four key ingredients to make beer for hundreds of years — malt, hops, yeast, and water, according to the Cicerone certification program, which provides training to brewing professionals.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Seed Certification and Genetic Integrity: The importance of seed certification systems in maintaining genetic purity and market access is discussed.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
This is one of the missions originally awarded to United Launch Alliance under the NSSL Phase 2 contracts, but shifted to SpaceX after delays in ULA’s Vulcan certification.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
What is beer made from? Brewers historically have used four key ingredients to make beer for hundreds of years — malt, hops, yeast, and water, according to the Cicerone certification program, which provides training to brewing professionals.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Seed Certification and Genetic Integrity: The importance of seed certification systems in maintaining genetic purity and market access is discussed.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for certification
certificate
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However, because the scrubber didn’t have access to the bank’s TLS certificates, the bank had to provide access logs for the scrubber to analyze and block application-level (L7) DDoS attacks.—
Alexander Krizhanovsky,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Dodge receiving treatment for a rattlesnake bite, and her special certificate.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Certification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/certification. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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