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 a closed hearing last month, testimony from several witnesses raised questions about how investigators had used the DNA sample from the knife sheath to identify Kohberger as a suspect.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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The shooter, later identified by police as 43-year-old George C. Manning III, then allegedly abducted Giuliana Manning from the home, according to the highway patrol.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sensitive information includes financial account information, or personal identification information (including social security numbers and dates of birth).—
Heather L. Locus,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Conformal prediction Machine learning is one tool researchers have started using for microplastic identification.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Project 2025 document suggested phasing out IDR plans for student loan borrowers and replacing them with a one-size-fits-all IDR plan.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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Federal officials were told to eliminate the option to choose a marker for a third gender identity on documents such as passports.—
Varad Mehta,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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“ID.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ID. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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