ID'ING Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

ID'ing

verb

variants or IDing

present participle of ID

as in identifying

to find out or establish the identity of studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes

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The kill chain—the sequence of steps between identifying a target and destroying it—was only as fast and accurate as his keystrokes.

— Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight started fires at three infrastructure facilities in Russia's Krasnodar region, local emergency officials said Monday, without identifying the locations.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

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Two days later, investigators searched his hotel room and reported finding nearly 700 grams of cocaine, more than 70 grams of fentanyl, drug packaging materials and $13,867, according to authorities.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Employees, consumers and communities have become adept at distinguishing genuine commitment from purpose language constructed for a marketing campaign.

— Deirdre White, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Boise and Garden City adopted regulations this summer distinguishing e-motorcycles from e-bikes and imposing additional requirements for their use on city streets.

— Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026

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