identifications

plural of identification

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Recent Examples of identifications The office will confirm identifications and ensure proper paperwork is filed before releasing the remains back to family. Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects. Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2026 Across all political identifications, being male and white correlates with higher meat consumption. David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026 As standard practice, the military makes public identifications 24 hours after next of kin have been notified. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 June 2026 The terms could be pictures of plants, and the definitions would be their identifications. Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026 In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting. Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 June 2026 The 1,121 new species found between mid-2025 and mid-2026 marks a 54 percent increase in annual identifications. K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 24 May 2026 The whopping number of discoveries marks a 54% jump in identifications in a single year, the researchers said. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identifications
Noun
  • Video recordings and documents detail how investigators pursued the case, and the possibility of abuse, for months but failed to identify a perpetrator.
    Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this year, tech journalism site 404 Media reported on internal documents that showed Bus Patrol allegedly working on a plan to turn its thousands of cameras into an Automatic License Plate Reader network for law enforcement.
    Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
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
Noun
  • The client keeps legal title and is the only party who can initiate a withdrawal, which requires separate video verifications, liveness checks and screening for duress.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • This option has been considered in the past, but the USDA remained in charge of the verifications, albeit with Mexican security forces accompanying them.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • India has put $160 million behind a Critical Mineral Recycling Incentive Scheme, and Vietnam’s Decree 05/2025 turns recycled electronics into tradable EPR certificates, making compliance a revenue line rather than a cost.
    Rob Kaplan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • These technologies include firewalls, secure socket layer (SSL) certificates, HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), and two-factor authentication (2FA), among other things.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • This requires moving away from the traditional way of performing the manual heavy lifting of pulling data, stitching spreadsheets and running validations line-by-line to a reviewer position.
    Gargi Ray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, 1,740,000 of those entries that passed the file validations stage (about 15 percent) have been liquidated and are in the process of being refunded.
    Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Axiom Math has used its autonomous, multi-agent system that turns mathematical statements into machine-checkable proofs to crack several unsolved mathematical problems and verify many more proofs this year.
    Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Given the focus on AI and LLMs these days, this is a massive development that potentially future-proofs your WordPress website.
    Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • How to organize documents so nothing gets lost Keep passports, identification, reservation confirmations and emergency contacts together in one place.
    Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The traveler is left managing multiple confirmations, while employees may lack a complete picture of the guest’s plans.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Noun
  • Tome is also accused of intentionally deleting digital evidences, police said.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026
  • What Frost’s claim evidences is that perennial American anxiety about speaking a tongue whose name isn’t shared with that of our nationality.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

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