IDS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

IDs

verb

present tense third-person singular of ID

as in identifies

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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Its Automated Vehicle Access Control system, known as AVAC, identifies arriving vehicles and compares information against facility records.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Bella correctly identifies this as a weird suggestion to make on a Tuesday.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2026

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However recognizable the structures may be—isolated phrases giving way to longform improvisation—the performance finds Taylor in a transitional period, one in which the ephemerality of the moment pushed its musicians to bold new places.

— Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
The survey finds that the Democratic candidates running in Michigan, Texas, Maine, Ohio, and Kansas are ahead of their Republican counterparts by 11, 7, 6, 5, and 5 percentage points, respectively.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026

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