ID CARDS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

ID cards

noun

plural of ID card

as in documents

something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be As we waited in the security line, the officer told us to have our ID cards ready.

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Recent Examples of ID cards The app digitizes contracts, receipts, tax forms, handwritten notes, ID cards, and multi-page documents. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2026 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 Photocopies are acceptable for any of the documents except driver’s licenses or state or tribal ID cards. — John Hult, States Newsroom, 28 Aug. 2026 There's also a zip pocket for ID cards and other essentials, altogether making this a great option for both kids and adults on-the-go. — ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026 The new laws cover several school policies, from cellphone restrictions and student ID cards to bathroom access and student health insurance. — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Passport Holder Keep your passport easily accessible for hotel check-in with a passport holder that includes space for other essentials like boarding passes, credit cards, ID cards, and more. — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026 They were given until June 12 to modify signs, brochures, ID cards and the center's website. — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026

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Noun

Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to federal court documents in Dallas.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2026
The legal group, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund, brought the lawsuit in which the new court documents were released.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of documents

Noun

Inside was a tumble of papers, some moldy, some with partial footprints, leaves and twigs interspersed among the pages.

— Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
And though papers in Washington State such as the Seattle Times have mentioned the protests, nobody in legacy media is criticizing the boy's participation.

— Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 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

Kaniesa Scott, 21, and Unique Benjamin, 28, were fatally shot, according to a Dallas Morning News report that attributed the identifications to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Nov. 2026
Jacksonville prosecutors claimed the match and the two eyewitness identifications were enough for probable cause in Richardson’s case.

— Edward Longe, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of identifications

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

For instance, the Supreme Court in late October allowed New Hampshire to enforce restrictions on using student identification cards as valid voter IDs.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2026
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

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