identity cards

noun

plural of identity card
as in identifications
something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be Motorists were stopped at a checkpoint and required to present identity cards before traveling any further.

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Recent Examples of identity cards At one six-story abandoned scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, investigators found rooms kitted out to resemble the offices of police forces from Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and China, complete with fake uniforms, insignia, and identity cards. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 Apr. 2026 Thales’s Singapore facility now produces more than 200 million banking cards, 12 million identity cards, and nearly 10 million passport data pages annually for customers worldwide. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026 The program was created in 2005 to increase security and authentication procedures for driver's licenses and identity cards. — Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identity cards
  1. identifications
  2. documents
  3. witnesses
  4. evidences
  5. documentations
  6. ID cards
  7. identification cards
Noun
  • As standard practice, the military makes public identifications 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.
    — 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
Definition of identifications
Noun
  • The documents say the company plans to build seven pump stations, three of them located on federal land managed by the agency.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The suit, filed in Illinois’ federal district court in May, alleges that Thomas appropriated Karant’s images without attribution or consent, according to court documents obtained by Hyperallergic.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • He is prohibited from contacting any witnesses in the case and is restricted to three days a week in the office.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026
  • Defense attorneys chose not to call certain experts and limited their questioning of the state's witnesses to avoid violating the agreement, according to the motion.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of witnesses
Noun
  • What Frost’s claim evidences is that perennial American anxiety about speaking a tongue whose name isn’t shared with that of our nationality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of evidences
Noun
  • 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.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Last October, the cemetery was vandalized with historical documentations and markers as well as plaques with poems being removed and torn down.
    — Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
Definition of documentations
Noun
  • They were given until June 12 to modify signs, brochures, ID cards and the center's website.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Facial recognition also significantly reduces the possibility of forgery or fraud when compared with ID cards or passwords.
    — Vijayan Asari, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
Definition of ID cards
Noun
  • But authorities said two identification cards were also found in Horsch’s vehicle and raised more questions.
    — Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • That evidence [passports and identification cards] could send him to federal prison for life.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
Definition of identification cards

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“Identity cards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20cards. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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