as in to identify
to find out or establish the identity of
studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes
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as in identification
something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be
The bouncer is required to check IDs at the door.
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Recent Examples of ID
Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Kindness is comedy’s boring first cousin, the very thing that most standup comedians and their rampant ids want to get away from, in order to be their worst and thus their funniest selves.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
The ethos throws you back to an earlier era of Broadway, to something a little more sinewy and id-driven than your typical family-friendly movie-adaptation musical.
—Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023
His Lee is a wounded Tiger Beat pinup, a Kentucky boy in pan-gender thrift-store couture who lives with a desperate all-id intensity that often subsumes Russell's more tentative character.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
Verb
Between the lines: There are other tools on the market that ID drugs that can be repurposed.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
The dataset linking analyst names to their recommendations was not provided anymore by I/B/E/S. Clever researchers such as Kelvin Law at Nanyang Business School found a way to reverse engineer some of these anonymous ids.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Kindness is comedy’s boring first cousin, the very thing that most standup comedians and their rampant ids want to get away from, in order to be their worst and thus their funniest selves.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
The ethos throws you back to an earlier era of Broadway, to something a little more sinewy and id-driven than your typical family-friendly movie-adaptation musical.
—Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023
His Lee is a wounded Tiger Beat pinup, a Kentucky boy in pan-gender thrift-store couture who lives with a desperate all-id intensity that often subsumes Russell's more tentative character.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ID
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In court papers, Lee’s accusers are identified as Jane Does.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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The victim was identified as Lanier Miller, 48, of South Holland, Illinois — Adams’ stepfather.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Another option is for taxpayers to request an identity protection pin from the IRS, which prevents someone else from filing a tax return using their Social Security number or individual taxpayer identification number.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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This flight, and others that may follow, will likely be intercepted by fighters for visual identification.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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While three police detectives tried to detain Gonzalez-Munoz and another man near the food court, Gonzalez-Munoz grabbed one of the detective’s guns and fired one shot, according to police and court documents.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2025
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The document alleges that Nezhinskiy also had contact with one of the Ohio suspects less than a week before Burrow's house was broken into.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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“ID.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ID. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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