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

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

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

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The minister presented al-Shahat and his wife with certificates of appreciation, and awarded them a trip to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah pilgrimage in recognition of his honesty and responsible conduct for not keeping the discovery to himself.

— Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Oeko-Tex also says a quarter of its certificates are retested through its quality control program.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of certificates

Noun

In August, the three-member Indiana Recount Commission, which includes Republican Secretary of State Diego Morales, threw out multiple votes cast for Deery for lacking clerk validations, such as clerk initials or stamped signatures.

— Cate Charron, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of validations

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And mathematicians and theorists are tapping their new, powerful models to generate entire proofs for their research.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
The company said the implementation was formally verified using Lean, a system for checking mathematical proofs.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of proofs

Noun

Travel confirmations and warranty information are good candidates.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The kind of life admin tasks like swim lesson sign-ups and appointment confirmations that pile up with alarming frequency in a house of one preschool-age kid and two adults with full-time jobs.

— Allison Johnson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 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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