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certificate

[ser-tif-i-kit, ser-tif-i-keyt] / sərˈtɪf ɪ kɪt, sərˈtɪf ɪˌkeɪt /


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For Promise, completing his studies is therefore not simply another line on a certificate.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

There is no certificate that is accepted everywhere.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

The city of Newark has been pressing for The GEO Group to permit a fire inspection and obtain a certificate of occupancy for the sprawling private jail.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

“If your family is homeless and sleeping in your car, you’re not really focused on where’s my birth certificate, where’s my documentation.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

It took five weeks, but when the birth certificate arrived in the Richardson mailbox, it was a bit of a disappointment.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

For the 2025 calendar year, 20,685 deaths were attributed across the nation to COVID-19 on death certificates, according to the CDC.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

By then, the San Francisco family will have had their birth certificates notarized, had European officials record their fingerprints and transferred half a million Euros into an international investment fund.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

During the 2024-25 academic year, 52,500 students under 18 earned certificates or associate degrees — nearly four times as many as a decade earlier, according to a National Student Clearinghouse research report.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

The pair also faked certificates of analysis, the documents that prove the safety and quality of a product.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

And there is a whole subgenre of ancestor research—sons and daughters flying to New York clutching scrapbooks, tracking down letters of indenture, photographs, birth certificates.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Next year, the labor shortage is projected to hit nearly 7,000 certificated mechanics in North America, 12% fewer than the industry actually needs, according to the industry report.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

In 2024, 44,855 of the 552,695 certificated grades for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher were appealed.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2025

“With the number of requirements and expectations already placed on certificated staff, this is an unreasonable and highly concerning expectation.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

Electric aircraft maker Eve Holding Inc is "on track" to meet its goal of starting commercial operations in 2026, an executive said on Friday, and getting its aircraft certificated is the most immediate target.

From Reuters Feb. 17, 2023

To hear—whenever the Raymonds, or any other of the godly school-keeping sort come to dinner—of the direful effects of certificated schoolmistresses, would drive me to such distraction that I cannot answer for the consequences.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge

It would seem that full local control was given except in the matter of certificating teachers and regulating the government grant.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam




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