decertifying

verb

present participle of decertify
as in invalidating

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  1. invalidating
  2. nullifying
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  • Officials worried that some ballots were postmarked at processing facilities the day after they were dropped off at a post office, possibly invalidating them.
    — John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • Alongside the launch, Anthropic is introducing beta features that allow developers to change available tools mid-conversation without invalidating prompt caches and automatically route flagged API requests to another model.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
Definition of invalidating
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  • The loss of Coleman, still a strong play-driving winger, is fairly substantial, nullifying any positive effect from Nemec’s addition.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • The decision to kill John Connor is daft to the nth degree, effectively nullifying the entire point of the series.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of nullifying
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“Decertifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decertifying. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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