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credential

[kri-den-shuhl] / krɪˈdɛn ʃəl /








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Only 40% of the state’s 2021 high-school graduates are projected to obtain a postsecondary credential by age 26.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

At the same time Clark was damaging her image, her Fever bosses came under fire for trying to protect that image by revoking the credential of veteran Fever and Pacers beat reporter Scott Agness.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 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

This month, though, the 20-year-old will receive an associate degree in early childhood education, a credential that will bump her from hourly to salaried employee, at higher pay, at the preschool where she works.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 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

Cordes noted that credentialed tax professionals — including enrolled agents and CPAs — have due-diligence and ethical obligations.

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

The emergence of BlackRock's Rick Rieder as a Federal Reserve frontrunner means the US central bank could be led by a financial markets master less academically credentialed than other recent chairs.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

It’s taking many of America’s most credentialed business-school graduates months to land and accept offers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

Identification card: An applicant requesting relief would be referred to a credentialed volunteer relief committee.

From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

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

Among other responsibilities, the task force, which will be led by an executive director, will “assist in the planning and implementation of visa processing and credentialing programs for foreign athletes, coaches, officials, and media personnel.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 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

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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