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something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be
You'll need two forms of identification to register to vote.
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Recent Examples of identifications
As standard practice, the military makes public identifications 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.
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Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The terms could be pictures of plants, and the definitions would be their identifications.
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Jill Duffy,
PC Magazine,
17 June 2026
In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting.
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Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
10 June 2026
The 1,121 new species found between mid-2025 and mid-2026 marks a 54 percent increase in annual identifications.
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K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 May 2026
The whopping number of discoveries marks a 54% jump in identifications in a single year, the researchers said.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
Staff are able to give guests complimentary rock identifications, per the park’s website.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
The researchers reviewed photographs of many of the bodies and interviewed forensic experts as well as people who worked on identifications at the IDF Shura base where most of the bodies were brought.
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Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
Passengers don't need to worry about updating boarding passes or flight information because airline carriers are working with the airport to ensure that the new gate identifications are reflected on upcoming flights.
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Kate Kealey,
Des Moines Register,
12 May 2026
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The terms could be pictures of plants, and the definitions would be their identifications.
—
Jill Duffy,
PC Magazine,
17 June 2026
In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting.
—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
10 June 2026
The 1,121 new species found between mid-2025 and mid-2026 marks a 54 percent increase in annual identifications.
—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 May 2026
The whopping number of discoveries marks a 54% jump in identifications in a single year, the researchers said.
—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
Staff are able to give guests complimentary rock identifications, per the park’s website.
—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
The researchers reviewed photographs of many of the bodies and interviewed forensic experts as well as people who worked on identifications at the IDF Shura base where most of the bodies were brought.
—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
Passengers don't need to worry about updating boarding passes or flight information because airline carriers are working with the airport to ensure that the new gate identifications are reflected on upcoming flights.
—
Kate Kealey,
Des Moines Register,
12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identifications
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Court documents say witnesses noticed Lopez acting strangely before the attack.
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Kai Poma plans to conduct cultural and archaeological resource studies and environmental surveys and then prepare a resource management plan for the property, according to planning documents.
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An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical.
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Last October, the cemetery was vandalized with historical documentations and markers as well as plaques with poems being removed and torn down.
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For example, automatic checks and verifications with tools like ZeroBounce can ensure your bulk emails reach their recipients and also improve email open rates, click rates, and sales conversions.
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This is all about verifications and no one on this team is just going to take the Iranians at their word.
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Those certificates are mandatory for closing estate matters and claiming life insurance benefits, so don’t assume one office handles both.
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Information technology certificates, on average, left students $20,839 behind similar Texas peers who did not enroll in college after five years.
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It must be operationally governed using AgentOps disciplines that treat trust, evaluation and drift as continuous concerns rather than one-time validations.
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Meanwhile, 1,740,000 of those entries that passed the file validations stage (about 15 percent) have been liquidated and are in the process of being refunded.
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The initial phase of isolated AI proofs-of-concept is over, replaced by a need for scalable, production-ready solutions.
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And humans verify whether those proofs are correct.
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On Friday, only two cases of Legionnaire’s Disease had been reported, although city doctors were awaiting additional confirmations.
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The Verge reported these changes, citing an internal meeting audio and former employee confirmations.
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What Frost’s claim evidences is that perennial American anxiety about speaking a tongue whose name isn’t shared with that of our nationality.
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This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.
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“Identifications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identifications. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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