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as in found
to find out or establish the identity of
sufficient forensic evidence to allow investigators to identify the perpetrator
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as in associated
to think of (something) in combination
for some reason, he always identified the color red with flowers
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Recent Examples of identified
Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
According to Altizer, nothing was found during those searches, and without a specific location identified in the Willow Creek area, law enforcement has yet to conduct a thorough ground search there.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 13 May 2026
Students identified as homeless, who will receive an additional one-time $500 contribution deposited into their account.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Pictured left, one victim who was identified only as Felix.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 13 May 2026
On Tuesday, the girl identified Jean in a photo lineup.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
Police identified the boy as Kingston McWilliams.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Witnesses and the victim identified Anderson as the shooter, but he was already gone.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 7 May 2026
She has been identified as 14-year-old Angelina Santillan Coronel by Patrick Henry High School principal Sandra White, according to KNSD.
—Staff Author, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
Adjective
While Kirk may have received hostile or threatening messages, including on social media, those were not part of any identified or actionable threat stream monitored by federal authorities, the person told Sganga.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
The Kansas Highway Patrol identified a Leavenworth woman as the person killed in a single-vehicle crash in Johnson County Tuesday afternoon.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
According to Altizer, nothing was found during those searches, and without a specific location identified in the Willow Creek area, law enforcement has yet to conduct a thorough ground search there.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 13 May 2026
Students identified as homeless, who will receive an additional one-time $500 contribution deposited into their account.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Pictured left, one victim who was identified only as Felix.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 13 May 2026
On Tuesday, the girl identified Jean in a photo lineup.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
Police identified the boy as Kingston McWilliams.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Witnesses and the victim identified Anderson as the shooter, but he was already gone.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 7 May 2026
She has been identified as 14-year-old Angelina Santillan Coronel by Patrick Henry High School principal Sandra White, according to KNSD.
—Staff Author, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identified
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Two of Rubén’s older sons, who married Russian acrobats during international stints, broke off and founded their own troupe as Circus Caballero.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Co-founded in 1986 by philanthropist and child health advocate Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and pediatrician and genetics pioneer Professor David Danks, MCRI comprises 1,800 scientists, researchers and clinicians.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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Contact each creditor or debt collector associated with a fraudulent account.—
Miranda Marquit,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 May 2026
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Because the mineral contains titanium and potassium, and those elements are associated with the rocks in Earth’s crust, the researchers think kopylovite is produced when sediments sink into the mantle in subduction zones atop slabs of oceanic crust.—
James Dinneen,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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The spa Spa Pendry is located in the new wing of the hotel and comes in at a whopping 19,000 square feet.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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After several hours in the water, the missing individual was located.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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Cooling towers were also the culprit in a large Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City last year, which was linked to 114 cases, 90 hospitalizations and seven deaths.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is warning residents of a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to baby poultry.—
DeJanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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The detentions come after a handful of other arrests months earlier, but Fúnez has long been pinpointed by local environmental and religious leaders as the man who spearheaded the assassination.—
Marlon González,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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The state had pinpointed the ACM campus as a site for it in 2023 before U-M bought different land in Ypsilanti Township for the controversial project.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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Chinese purchase commitments tend to be inversely correlated with how loudly they are announced.—
Drew Bernstein,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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So the whole play on words was the birds and the bees,which is kind of correlated to both John Logan and John Tucker’s stories, in a sense.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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But his team distinguished themselves through superior organisation with and without the ball, exploiting space to play to the specific strengths of their personnel.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Family dynamics have frequently been at the heart of Koreeda’s films, invariably distinguished by his exceptional direction of children.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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As part of that package, Republicans included $1 billion for White House security enhancements, part of it connected to Trump’s ballroom.—
Mary Clare Jalonick,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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Austin police arrested two juveniles Sunday who investigators believe were connected to 12 shooting incidents across the city that injured four people, struck two fire stations and triggered a shelter-in-place order in South Austin.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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“Identified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identified. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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