credential
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Paper value once managed is seen as a sort of credential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
But at the 2026 World Cup, there’s one credential more valuable than the rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
Users were targeted by a so-called "credential stuffing" attack in which hackers used passwords exposed in previous breaches to access 23andMe accounts for which people had used similar credentials.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Lots of people work hard at skilled jobs but lack something—a degree, a credential, sometimes a union card—that would give them better pay and more job security.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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
You can start with the IRS directory of credentialed professionals.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 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
“A coordination gap resulted in the media convoy proceeding before the credentialing process was fully completed,” a Space Launch Delta 30 spokesperson said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The credentialing process alone can take up to six months, Blau said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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
But he still believed in creating literary projects unencumbered by the traditional press and its credentialled demands.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
As we chopped up the vegetables in a light rain, we talked about all the things we had discussed in his office—John Brown, labor movements, the need to break away from credentialled society.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
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
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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