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Ceres Farms, LLC

Ceres Farms, LLC is an Indiana-based private farmland fund formed in 2007 and managed by Ceres Partners, which acquires and leases productive U.S. agricultural land.

CERGE-EI

CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute) is a Prague institution, founded in 1991, that combines Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Ceribell

Ceribell, Inc. is a Sunnyvale, California medical technology company, founded in 2014, selling a portable headband EEG system for rapid seizure detection in emergency rooms.

Cerita Jenaka

Cerita jenaka is a genre of Malay oral folk literature of short humorous stories, including Pak Pandir and Abu Nawas, that entertain while conveying satire and moral advice.

Çerkez Halil Efendi

Çerkez Halil Efendi was an Ottoman scholar of Circassian origin who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's supreme mufti, from 1819 until his dismissal in 1821 and death in exile.

Cernavoda

Cernavodă (Cernavoda), town on the Danube in Dobrogea, Romania; eponym site of the Cernavoda I–III Eneolithic cultures, Hamangia cemetery, ancient Axiopolis, and Romania's only nuclear power plant.

Cerne Abbas Giant

The Cerne Abbas Giant is Britain's largest chalk hill figure, a 180 ft naked club-bearing man cut into a Dorset hillside. OSL dating places its origin in the late Saxon period (700–1100 AD), likely as a Hercules image.

Cerner

Cerner was a Kansas City healthcare IT company, co-founded by Neal Patterson and Clifford Illig, that became a leading hospital electronic health record vendor before Oracle acquired it in 2022.

Cernunnos

Cernunnos, also Carnonos, is a Gaulish antlered god named once, on the Pillar of the Boatmen in Paris, and known otherwise from images with torcs, a coin purse, and a ram-horned serpent; his modern Wiccan Horned God role is a twentieth-century construction.

Cert pool

The cert pool is a voluntary Supreme Court arrangement, proposed by Justice Lewis Powell in the early 1970s, in which participating chambers share screening of about 7,000 certiorari petitions; one clerk writes a pool memo with a grant recommendation. Seven justices participate; Alito and Gorsuch opt out.

Certain Conventional Weapons Convention

The Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW) is a 1980 United Nations framework treaty banning or restricting conventional weapons that cause unnecessary suffering, with five protocols joined separately by states.

Certainty equivalent

The certainty equivalent is the sure amount of money a decision maker values exactly as much as a risky prospect, the cash value of a gamble.

Certificate of deposit

A certificate of deposit is a time deposit held at a bank or credit union for a fixed term, paying interest with a penalty for early withdrawal.

Certificate of origin

A certificate of origin is an international trade document certifying the country where goods in an export shipment were produced or substantially transformed, determining tariff preferences and quotas.

Certified copy

Certified copy: a duplicate of a primary document endorsed by a government agency, court, notary, or authorized professional to confirm it truly reproduces the original; distinct from notarized copies, used for banking, immigration, and court evidence.

Certified Financial Planner

Certified Financial Planner (CFP) is a professional certification for financial planners granted by the CFP Board, requiring education, a 170-question exam, experience, and a fiduciary ethics commitment.

Certified Internal Auditor

Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) is a professional certification in internal auditing issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors through a three-part examination, first awarded in 1974.

Certified Management Accountant

Certified Management Accountant (CMA) is a professional certification in management accounting and financial management awarded by the Institute of Management Accountants since 1972, with over 100,000 holders in more than 150 countries.

Certified Public Accountant

A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a license issued by 55 U.S. states and territories after education, a uniform four-section exam, and supervised experience; about 653,000 CPAs are licensed.

CertiK

CertiK, legally CertiK Global Ltd., is a New York-based Web3 security company founded by professors Ronghui Gu and Zhong Shao that audits blockchain smart contracts.

Certiorari

Certiorari is a writ by which a higher court reviews a lower court's decision, best known as the way the US Supreme Court chooses cases to hear.

Cervin Ventures

Cervin Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, that invests in enterprise software, data infrastructure, and AI-powered businesses.

CES Letter

The CES Letter, originally titled Letter to a CES Director, is a 2013 critical essay on the origins, history, and scripture of the LDS Church by Jeremy Runnells.

César A. Hidalgo

César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar who co-developed the Economic Complexity Index, founded Datawheel, and has been a full professor at the Toulouse School of Economics since 2024.

Cesar Aguilar

Cesar Aguilar is an American politician and Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 26 since his first election in November 2022.

César Augusto Astudillo Salcedo

César Augusto Astudillo Salcedo is a Peruvian politician and retired army general of Fuerza Popular who has served as Minister of the Interior since 2026, after leading the Armed Forces' Joint Command from 2018 to 2021.

César Blanco

César Blanco is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Navy veteran who has represented Texas Senate District 29 since 2021, after serving in the Texas House from 2015.

César Carvalho

César Carvalho is a Brazilian entrepreneur and chief executive who cofounded Wellhub, the corporate wellness platform launched as Gympass in 2012 and valued at $2.4 billion.

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez, born César Estrada Chávez, was an American labor organizer who built the United Farm Workers, led the 1965 Delano grape strike, and won farmworkers the right to organize.

Cesar Chavez sexual abuse allegations

Sexual abuse allegations against United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez (1927-1993), made public by a New York Times investigation on March 18, 2026, alleging abuse of underage girls and the rape of Dolores Huerta, triggering canceled Chavez Day celebrations, renamings, and a 2026 lawsuit.