ex officio

adjective

Definition of ex officionext
as in certified

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  1. certified
  2. licensed
  3. semiofficial
  4. canonical
Adjective
  • Anyone viewing a partial solar eclipse should wear certified solar eclipse glasses or use a handheld solar viewer that meets the ISO 12312-2 international safety standard, NASA recommends.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • General waste goes into certified blue bags that residents buy.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of certified
Adjective
  • Pretoria’s requirement that 30% of any licence holder be owned by Black South Africans does not apply to Amazon because Herotel is the licensed operator.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
  • Between 2019 and 2022, the number of licensed mudlarks in London more than doubled, to five thousand.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Definition of licensed
Adjective
  • Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency said a Qatari delegation visited Iran in what analyst said appears to be an effort by Doha to consolidate its role as a mediator.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 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 situation began to change when the novelist Stewart O’Nan published an influential essay in the Boston Review in 1999, arguing for Yates as a canonical American author.
    — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of canonical
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