IDENTIFICATIONS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

identifications

noun

plural of identification

as in documents

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 Investigators also found various chemicals, a 55-gallon drum, false identifications and urns in the home, police shared in a press conference. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 The office will confirm identifications and ensure proper paperwork is filed before releasing the remains back to family. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects. — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2026 Across all political identifications, being male and white correlates with higher meat consumption. — David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026 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 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

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Noun

Before Saylor Hayes’ parents were arrested in connection with the 5-year-old girl’s death this week, the couple had been charged with child abuse and had a history of drug use, court documents show.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Johnson had also issued an arrest warrant against him in March, ruling him in contempt of court at that time over failing to turn over the financial documents, including state and federal tax returns along with bank statements and other filings.

— Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of 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.

— 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

Age verifications and parental controls come with notorious loopholes.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
The client keeps legal title and is the only party who can initiate a withdrawal, which requires separate video verifications, liveness checks and screening for duress.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of verifications

Noun

Let’s Encrypt, the certificate authority that issued the certificates used in the hijacking, requires a quorum of them to return a positive result before a certificate is issued.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
Yeah, well, the import certificates were distinct, but their goal is to balance imports against exports.

— Alex Crippen, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of certificates

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This requires moving away from the traditional way of performing the manual heavy lifting of pulling data, stitching spreadsheets and running validations line-by-line to a reviewer position.

— Gargi Ray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
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.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of validations

Noun

Impressive proofs-of-concept, however, fall short of the enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements required for production deployment, which causes many AI projects to stagnate.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Using his past experience as his touchstone, today at age 59, Arnett makes Tennessee brown whiskey his way, distilling multiple products, proofs and flavors — one sure to hit the mark with his customers.

— Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of proofs

Noun

Delivery updates, tracking links and confirmations are exactly what customers want instantly, and automation beats humans every time.

— Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Individual booking confirmations and online schedules will be updated progressively to reflect the new voyage plans.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of confirmations

Noun

Tome is also accused of intentionally deleting digital evidences, police said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026
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

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