Recent Examples on the WebUnder federal law, every gun in the U.S. must have a serial number — an identifier unique to the weapon's manufacturer that the ATF can use to trace it.—Chris Hacker, CBS News, 16 May 2024 Other unmarked vehicles are used for traffic enforcement and SWAT units, with unmarked vehicles appearing identical to marked patrol cars, with the exception of the outside police identifiers.—Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024 One, the International DOI Foundation, handled close to 100 billion new identifiers last year.—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2024 The lieutenant colonel pulled the Velcro press identifier off my body armor and dropped it down the hole.—Michael Tobin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2024 Ethically speaking, CAVs, which use machine learning or artificial intelligence, must perform accurate risk assessment based on objective features and not on characteristics such as gender, age, race, and other human identifiers, Chatila said.—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024 The competing Judiciary bill would go much further, requiring officials to get a warrant before querying the repository using an American’s name or other identifier.—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023 By embracing the No Sabo Kid identifier, young Latinos who grew up as millennials or part of Gen Z have taken an insult and turned it around, said Stella Rouse, a political science professor and director of Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center.—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 That means an employee's hours with your company are a primary personal identifier—a huge psychological fact in their lives.—Anne Lackey, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
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