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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At each location, staff and volunteers work to identify community needs, recruit personnel, procure critical equipment and material items, and coordinate the overall response.Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
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Instagram has rolled out tools that allow users to identify and categorize which of their followers could be spam accounts, and ban entire groups of followers at once.Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 17 Nov. 2024
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The Cape Coral Police Department posted the suspect's photo on its Facebook and Instagram page to assist with identification.Bradford Betz, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
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All the neo-Nazis initially refused to provide identification, the footage shows.Bailey Gallion, The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2024
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According to court documents, some Union voters were disenfranchised while other voters in the unincorporated parts of the county may have incorrectly voted in the city election.Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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Outside, there is a basketball court, and toddlers will be able to play with tricycles and balls, according to the documents.Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
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“ID.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ID. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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