ex officio

adjective

Definition of ex officionext
as in certified

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ex officio
  1. certified
  2. licensed
  3. semiofficial
  4. canonical
Adjective
  • All this to say, there is a lot of room for new shows to break into the Outstanding Drama Series category, but not many certified hits both on a commercial and critical level to be a shoo-in.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 6 July 2026
  • For much of her decades-long career, Madonna has been known as not only a genre-bending talent and headline-grabber, but also a certified hitmaker.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of certified
Adjective
  • Maas is a 23-year law enforcement veteran and a licensed attorney.
    — Ari Maas, New York Daily News, 11 July 2026
  • The Peace Garden State has 478 licensed childcare centers in a state of fewer than 800,000 people, according to Child Care Aware of America.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 11 July 2026
Definition of licensed
Adjective
  • Explosions were heard in the cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
    — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026
  • Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency, close to its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, claimed Wednesday that Bloomberg’s version had missing portions, without offering a full accounting.
    — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Definition of semiofficial
Adjective
  • The men’s hairstyles, and often their physiognomies, frequently seem to converge on the canonical portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The work interweaves South and Southeast Asian mythologies and histories with Western cultural touchstones—from canonical artists to sacred texts—often with a deliberate sense of unease.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 June 2026
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