How to Use identifier in a Sentence

identifier

noun
  • As the site notes, that is the model identifier for the new 2022 iPhone SE.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Each with a unique identifier, the piece is guaranteed to be one-of-a-kind.
    Tiffany Lung, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Customer feedback is the best identifier of bugs and how to solve them.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • The lieutenant colonel pulled the Velcro press identifier off my body armor and dropped it down the hole.
    Michael Tobin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Most of them will use what is called an identifier, which is a string of numbers that are linked to your phone rather than your name.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And that address where your change is sent can be used as an identifier.
    Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Leqembi works to reduce the amount of beta-amyloid present in the brain, which is a main identifier of Alzheimer’s.
    Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The identifier will be in retail product listings and on the box.
    Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 18 May 2021
  • The guys who used it as a serious self-identifier for so long were so wrong, and isn’t that funny?
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Hamilton said that two roads carried the identifier of Don Mincher Drive on the park’s north end.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Requires a unique identifier to be on the back of a tactical helmet if one is worn.
    oregonlive, 26 June 2021
  • Each one of those squares gets its own identifier made up of three random words—hence the company's name.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Does a service dog need to wear a vest or other identifier?
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
  • If a package that matches the three identifiers is found, it should be thrown away or returned to where it was purchased for a refund.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 5 July 2023
  • But the unique identifier remains your mobile phone number—and that’s a risk.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to this, even veteran identifier Wilks and her team sometimes look to the newbie ID-ers for help.
    Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • In addition to the lot codes in the PDF file, there’s another identifier to help customers.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Rhonda uses her talking book player to read, and knits with the aid of a color identifier for her yarn.
    Scott Krahn, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The deaf cast and crew even gave Heder a sign name, a unique identifier assigned to members of the deaf community.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Michael said when my plant-identifier app declared the trees almonds.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • If a cyclone forms in one part of the ocean but crosses into an area that uses a different name, the storm’s identifier will change.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
  • The piece of code is what's known as a nonfungible token (NFT), which uses a blockchain (in this case the Ethereum blockchain) to create a unique identifier that can be tracked.
    NBC News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The company warned perpetrators that each AirTag has a unique identifier that could be used to find them.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • No person’s foremost identifier should be the color of their skin, nor made to apologize for it.
    Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Guns found at crime scenes can often be tracked to their last owner by the serial number, but ghost guns have no such identifier.
    Tom Jackman and Emily Davies, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • These small devices, similar to the size of a grain of rice, act as unique identifiers for individual fish.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Trying to create a sort of anonymous identifier for a consumer has been being chased after for a long time now.
    Andy Mills, Quartz, 5 July 2024
  • Le Prince was six foot three, an unquestionable identifier at a time when the average adult male was five foot six.
    Nat Segnit, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • The style of dress has been made popular in Black communities and by some hip-hop artists but at the same time has been used as an identifier to police young, Black men as well.
    Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • An officer’s first initial and last name, or another unique identifier issued by the agency, must be on the front and back of the uniform and on the back of a helmet if worn.
    oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2021

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