as in identification
something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be
Motorists were stopped at a checkpoint and required to present identity cards before traveling any further.
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Expired passports and identity cards will now also be accepted as travel documents to facilitate repatriation.
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Sophie Tanno, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
Nilekani led India’s Aadhaar program, the world’s largest biometric identity card program.
—Garrison Lovely, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Within 30 minutes of the crash, roadblocks had been set up around the city to check identity cards (which listed people's ethnicity), and to kill those of Tutsi ethnicity on the spot.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Apr. 2024
At first, the state’s resident citizens should be those five million Palestinians now carrying PA identity cards and passports, but the state should eventually grant nationality without residency rights to Palestinian refugees worldwide, as an affirmation of identity.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
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Sophie Tanno, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
Nilekani led India’s Aadhaar program, the world’s largest biometric identity card program.
—Garrison Lovely, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Within 30 minutes of the crash, roadblocks had been set up around the city to check identity cards (which listed people's ethnicity), and to kill those of Tutsi ethnicity on the spot.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Apr. 2024
At first, the state’s resident citizens should be those five million Palestinians now carrying PA identity cards and passports, but the state should eventually grant nationality without residency rights to Palestinian refugees worldwide, as an affirmation of identity.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Identity card.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20card. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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