certificate

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It’s like a saver borrowing at 5% to fund a 3% certificate of deposit–the numbers don’t work.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Other groups have petitioned the board to limit Diablo Canyon’s Clean Water Act certificate to 2030, rather than 2045.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Most items come with a certificate of authenticity, but that certificate is only as legitimate as the organisation which awards it, and those organisations can be completely unvetted.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The Center for American Progress found that over 69 million female citizens over 15 do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name because of a name change or hyphenation.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

Serena, with the help of a dear friend of Farmer’s in Port-au-Prince—a small, quiet, usually smiling woman named Ti Fifi, whom Farmer affectionately called the “Haitian Godfather”—arranged for a fake birth certificate for John.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French