RECERTIFY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

recertify

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Definition of recertify

as in to revalidate

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Recent Examples of recertify The capacity will be based on funding and the number of households who recertify. — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 22 Apr. 2026 That process has effectively scared many people away from filling out paperwork to recertify with Medi-Cal due to fears of being outed by the federal government, which is cracking down on undocumented immigrants by apprehending and deporting them. — Pat Maio, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026 Only 364, less than 18% of their total eligible membership, actually voted to recertify the union as the bargaining authority. — Anastasios Kamoutsas, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026 The administration orders Colorado to recertify eligibility for 100,000 Coloradans who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for recertify

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The bill does not establish mechanisms to address the provider shortage, though Oz has previously said that all states will have to revalidate all of their providers, which has led to months of disruption in Minnesota.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 15 June 2026
By this point, Minnesota’s Human Services agency had already suspended new licenses in certain programs and started hiring additional staff to revalidate providers, as Oz had already threatened action against the state in December.

— Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 5 June 2026

Definition of revalidate

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These links must themselves be certified using further Bell tests before the gate-verification process can proceed.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
According to a July 3 letter obtained by The Sacramento Bee, the city still needed to complete required rezoning, adopt the housing element and submit both to HCD before the department could certify the plan.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of certify

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The board is expected to discuss the extreme measures Tuesday, Feb. 17. LAUSD employs more than 83,000 people, including teachers, administrators, certificated support personnel and substitutes, according to June 2025 data.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Trustees at the Ramona Unified School District voted unanimously Thursday to send layoff notices to 12 classified and certificated staff members and keep 28 vacant positions unfilled as a way to balance the budget.

— Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026

Definition of certificate

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The next day, Paxton’s office wrote to the conference warning that sanctioning Tech for supporting Sorsby was against the law and would carry consequences.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2026
Entities recently sanctioned include Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism, the country’s main energy company Cupet, and GAESA, the military conglomerate that controls about 40% of the country’s economy.

— Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Definition of sanction

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It was supposed to go into effect in January of this year, but last summer the FDA proposed extending that date by 30 months, pushing it to 2028, which Congress then ratified.

— Bryce Covert, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 July 2026
The employees who operate and maintain the Plane Train that shepherds thousands of passengers daily through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have ratified their first union contract — including an immediate 18% raise.

— Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of ratify

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But critics fear the FDA’s stamp of approval will simply legitimize the use of unproven substances whose dangers may only become apparent in coming years.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 20 July 2026
Peptide proponents like Rosebush counter that pharmaceutical companies have no interest in running the kind of costly studies on these peptides that are needed to legitimize them because many of them can't be patented.

— Will Stone, NPR, 8 July 2026

Definition of legitimize

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Andrew Jackson explained his veto of Congress’s bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States as being based on its unconstitutionality, even though the Supreme Court had approved Congress’s authority to so act years earlier.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
But their grip on the banking system soon succumbed to populist challenges, culminating in the failure, in 1832, of the attempt to recharter the federal government’s nationwide Bank of the United States.

— Charles W. Calomiris, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013

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