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re·iden·ti·fy | \ (ˌ)rē-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī 
, -ə- \
, -ə- \reidentified; reidentifying
Definition of reidentify
: to identify (someone or something) again
Cookies were first cooked up as a convenient way to make return visits to Web sites without having to reidentify yourself or your preferences. — Kiplinger's Personal Finance also : to give a new or different identity to Reidentified by false names, they can never contact anyone who knew them before… — Jet —often + as … when the work reemerged in 1967 it was sold at Sotheby's as Fuseli's portrait of Cartwright, but it was immediately reidentified as a self-portrait. — William L. Pressly
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reidentification \ (ˌ)rē-ī-ˌden-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən , -ə- \ noun
, -ə- \ noun
… the case hinged on the risk of "reidentification," or identifying individuals from apparently anonymized information. — Patrick Cain
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The first known use of reidentify was in 1820
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