IDENTIFICATION CARDS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

identification cards

noun

plural of identification card

as in witnesses

something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be We did not realize that identification cards were required to enter the government building.

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Recent Examples of identification cards Those numbers include 759 false identification cards confiscated, 378 alcohol-possession-by-a-minor violations and 98 fake-ID citations during the calendar-year reporting period, according to Oxford Police. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The older cards will gradually be phased out as Floridians renew or replace their licenses and identification cards. — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 The registration fees, along with driver’s license costs and other fees related to the California Highway Patrol and identification cards collected by the DMV, are the primary funding sources of the CHP and DMV. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The money will help Haiti’s government update its voter lists and procure 350,000 blank identification cards, the OAS said in a statement. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Officers also found numerous identification cards, Social Security cards, and checks that did not belong to Bryant or her passenger, according to police. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026 The board also sent out election notification and voter identification cards to voters with outdated information based on the old maps. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 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

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Noun

The man was ejected from his car, fell and hit the ride three times, 11 Alive reported, citing witnesses.

— DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
The trial is set to officially begin Wednesday, with prosecutors delivering opening arguments and calling their first witnesses.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026

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Temporary exhibits have ranged from a look at American paintings in the 1930s to French art critic Guillaume Apollinaire.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
Today the home to the New York Hall of Science, the outdoor exhibits includes the Rocket Park, where Gemini-Titan II and Mercury-Atlas D rockets and a Saturn V F-1 engine still stand.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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Voters show their identity cards while waiting in a queue before casting their votes for the second and final phase of Rajasthan’s urban local body elections in Jaipur, India, on September 11, 2026.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
By document type, national identity cards are number one, followed by a driver’s license and then a passport in third.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 July 2026

Definition of identity cards

Noun

This collects about 8,000 original documents and other elements linked to the house’s perfume and beauty archives, totaling about 5 percent of its full collection.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
The woman, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, sued the university; the fraternity, Chi Phi; her sorority, Tri Delta; and seven former Chi Phi members last month.

— Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

Noun

For example, using a quantum computer to break the current RSA-2048 encryption employed in website security, banking and electronic ID cards would require magic states that would fail only once in 10 billion tries.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Nonetheless, the scale of the leak is staggering, and includes not just drivers licenses, but 10 million ID cards, over three million travel documents, and over half a million medical cards as well, representing over 170 million individuals total.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

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