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accredit

[uh-kred-it] / əˈkrɛd ɪt /
VERB
attribute responsibility or achievement
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Last year, Florida and five other states established the Commission for Public Higher Education to accredit their public university systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Vienna has so far refused to accredit Taliban-appointed diplomats, although the Austrian government has held direct talks with Taliban authorities over deportations this year.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

But scores more accredit Piker for either their radicalization or their de-radicalization.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2025

The exams regulator Ofqual will review and accredit the syllabus before it can be taught in schools and colleges.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023

I could hardly accredit what he said, for, as above stated, not a breath of air was going.

From The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Pyle, Howard




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