IDENTIFICATIONS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

identifications

noun

plural of identification

as in documents

something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be You'll need two forms of identification to register to vote.

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Recent Examples of identifications Investigators also found various chemicals, a 55-gallon drum, false identifications and urns in the home, police shared in a press conference. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 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

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Noun

The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.

— Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.

— David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

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

Age verifications and parental controls come with notorious loopholes.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of verifications

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Some colleges — like Folsom Lake — offer associate degrees or certificates in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Covid was the underlying cause on 88% of the certificates that mentioned it from 2020 through mid-2022, and that fell to 76% for 2022 as a whole as certifiers more often listed it as a contributing cause.

— Jess Steier, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of certificates

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In August, the three-member Indiana Recount Commission, which includes Republican Secretary of State Diego Morales, threw out multiple votes cast for Deery for lacking clerk validations, such as clerk initials or stamped signatures.

— Cate Charron, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of validations

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Unfortunately, the full document was nigh-indecipherable—LLMs tend to explain their proofs in unhelpful ways, spending inordinate time on minor details while glancing past important steps.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026
For companies invested in the intersection of AI and entertainment, much of the work to date has been proofs-of-concept.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of proofs

Noun

The Senate has been addressing this week nominee confirmations and a bipartisan college sports bill to create standards on how athletes are paid, priorities that Republicans warn present poor optics to voters.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Moreover, radioisotopes produced at the lab contributed to the discoveries or confirmations of superheavy elements 114 (flerovium), 115 (moscovium), 116 (livermorium), and 118 (oganesson).

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of confirmations

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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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