EX OFFICIO Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

ex officio

adjective

Definition of ex officio

as in certified

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Adjective

Paint Like Bob Ross Complete a Bob Ross-style painting — complete with happy trees — in just one class taught by a certified instructor.

— Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Beyond the national parks, the route offers hot springs, film locations, Indigenous cultural sites, historic towns, and nearly three dozen certified Dark Sky Places.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of certified

Adjective

Hemp beverages reached national scale by selling outside the licensed marijuana system, the same system that taxes and constrains the legacy and social equity operators Dawson has spent years amplifying.

— Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Although consumers cannot access the private MLS directly, licensed agents can view information that is not publicly available, including showing instructions, price-change histories and other market data.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

Definition of licensed

Adjective

The semiofficial Fars news agency said the tanker made the journey with Iran’s permission.

— Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 30 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

In canonical abuse investigations, victims are mere third-party witnesses to their cases.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
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

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