IDENTIFIES Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

identifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of identify

as in distinguishes

to find out or establish the identity of sufficient forensic evidence to allow investigators to identify the perpetrator

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as in associates

to think of (something) in combination for some reason, he always identified the color red with flowers

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Recent Examples of identifies Hall’s report, also released by the state police on Friday, identifies the Jonesboro couple, who state police said last week were seriously injured and taken to a Memphis hospital. — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2026 Montway identifies March and April as a return-planning period, followed by the main northbound season in May and June. — Nia Bowers, Ascend Agency, 13 Aug. 2026 School buses will also not operate in areas under evacuation orders or warnings, which the district identifies as red and yellow zones on the regional evacuation map. — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 The World Economic Forum identifies curiosity and lifelong learning among the skills expected to grow in importance in the coming years. — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 That recommendation could change if the company identifies exposed identity information. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026 But the company's website identifies 2027 as a notional target for its first space mission. — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Then begins work on plan recommendations, including updating the Transportation Improvement Plan, which looks at major road and transit projects in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties and identifies funding for them. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026 Citation analysis identifies the domains and exact URLs influencing those answers, helping teams see whether their own pages, publishers or other third-party sources shape the response. — Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

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Summary Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty distinguishes itself with a core mission centered on youth mental health.

— Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
This final stage most clearly distinguishes reputational due diligence from mechanical screening.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of distinguishes

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What being Southern meant to his father—and the values Duane associates with being a Southern gentleman.

— Sid Evans, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2026
The productivity boom everyone associates with the personal computer didn’t actually show up in the macro data until 15 years after the PC was commercialized.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026

Definition of associates

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This directly correlates to a reduction in automaker incentive spending.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 13 Aug. 2026
These varieties germinate best in soil between 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which roughly correlates to daytime air temperatures in the 60 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit range.

— Amanda Tust, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of correlates

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Protas sees plays that others don’t, and finds seams in the offensive zone quickly.

— Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Based on her own troubled adolescence following her father’s suicide, the novel tells the story of Ann, who, after losing her father in tragic circumstances, finds solace – and trouble – in the Manchester music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of finds

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The athlete had a rare cancer known as nasopharyngeal cancer, which affects the tissue that connects the back of the nose to the back of the mouth, per Cleveland Clinic.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, is located between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, connects the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the Red Sea and, farther north, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of connects

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If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The medical model locates disability inside the individual, a deficit to be cured, corrected or endured until the person can function in a world built without them.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026