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credential

[kri-den-shuhl] / krɪˈdɛn ʃəl /








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He’s a full-time math teacher with a teaching credential.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Paper value once managed is seen as a sort of credential.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

After eight months, the investigators dropped her case in 2025, renewed her private investigator’s license and approved another credential she had pursued as part of her artistic practice: a license as a document destruction contractor.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Francis is Hegseth’s military assistant—and that’s his key credential as far as the self-named “secretary of war” is concerned.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

Eric Epps had made good on his promise to find employment for his brother-in-law Jimmy Goble, who had traded his teaching credential for a painters job at the Newport News shipyard.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

A Tribeca spokesperson said Savetsky was not in the film and was not credentialed by the festival, but was invited to the premiere by the film team.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

This book is among a series of attempts by experienced and credentialed experts to break down complicated topics — not as an artificial-intelligence summary might, but rather by providing a visual experience.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

But also interspersed between the credentialed professionals are a gaggle of YouTubers, streamers, and TikTokers—with mounted iPhones—documenting the saga in real time.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2026

One result: Young college grads enter a labor market that is saturated with heavily credentialed workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 2026

Her look was bold and reckless, and upon her countenance, where yet the contours of youth survived, were the finger-marks of old age's credentialed courier, Late Hours.

From Whirligigs by O. Henry

When those pressures capture journals or entire fields, peer review can become less a filter for error than a credentialing system for fashionable nonsense.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

North Carolina’s AI Academy at NC State, built with more than 100 corporate partners, combines university credentialing with applied workplace training.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

The tax bill also expands eligible expenses to include credentialing and licensing programs such coursework or tests to become a fitness trainer, a certified public accountant, or a lawyer.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

He posted a list on X of what he called “press credentialing FOR DUMMIES: Press no longer roams free Press must wear visible badge Credentialed press no longer permitted to solicit criminal acts.”

From Salon Oct. 15, 2025

Hammond didn’t directly respond to The Times inquiry about the notice of violation, sharing instead a document from 2020 that detailed how the academy would address concerns over teacher credentialing.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2024

More than two hundred thousand people applied for one of the sixteen spots on Season 1, and throughout the show’s early years the candidates were conspicuously credentialled and impressive.

From The New Yorker Dec. 27, 2018

Compared with “live scribing,” this system is purportedly more accurate—since the scribes tend to be fully credentialled doctors, not aspiring med students—for the same price or cheaper.

From The New Yorker Nov. 5, 2018

The oracular voice of authority is being drowned out by the aggregated voice of the Everyman, the credentialled scholar dethroned by the anonymous Wikipedia contributor.

From Economist Apr. 14, 2016

They were credentialled, like Lord Martin Rees, an astrophysicist and the co-founder of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

From The New Yorker Nov. 23, 2015

Trying to save the crew was all that kept me credentialled.

From Nature Sep. 4, 2013

Following Friday's ruling, the PPA said in a statement to CBS News that it "celebrates the decision by a federal judge today that the Pentagon's press credentialling policy violated the US Constitution".

From BBC Mar. 21, 2026

The problem was that those with power were the ones determining how much credentialling was sufficient, making young people feel that they needed a degree, no matter the cost.

From The New Yorker Sep. 2, 2019




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