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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Those individuals have been identified as Andrew Madrid, 16, Jason Gomez, 18, and Dominick Estrada, 19.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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A number of different sites locally have been identified as potential alternatives to 12,056-capacity Kenilworth Road, their famously quirky home for 120 years.—
Tom Burrows,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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But quality talent identification is not solely what allows RUSG to be successful.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Senate Bill 405 would repeal a law that currently prevents local governments in the state from requiring a person to show identification to vote.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Kremlin said Monday that no documents have been signed yet, but there is interest in cooperation.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
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Several documents from the case were unsealed last year, after a multi-year fight by the Miami Herald to make the public.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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“ID.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ID. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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