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GKN Aerospace’s Garden Grove facility, which sits on 15.5 acres on Western Avenue, designs, analyzes, tests and certifies military canopies, cockpit windows and passenger widows, according to its website.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

This budget enacts a “deemed approved” permitting process—which automatically certifies pending permits after an established time frame—for Department of Environmental Protection regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

An office that certifies schools whose students are eligible for financial aid?

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2025

"This agreement between the two parties certifies Jannik's innocence, his absolute non-guilt, and finally allows him to calm down and plan his future with a great comeback... in Rome."

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

Descartes was right in maintaining that sense-perception certifies to the existence of a world outside the mind, but mistaken in calling it nature and identifying it with the realm of science.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton