1
as in to distinguish
to find out or establish the identity of
sufficient forensic evidence to allow investigators to identify the perpetrator
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2
as in to associate
to think of (something) in combination
for some reason, he always identified the color red with flowers
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Recent Examples of identify
Erkan’s father identified him to police after surveillance footage captured Erkan fleeing the scene in a 2011 Silver Toyota RAV-4, according to prosecutors.
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The Marine Corps has identified the two U.S. service members killed in a vehicle crash earlier this week in New Mexico along the southern border.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
Sixty-two percent of white American adults identify as Christian, and 61% of American Christians identify as white.
—Michael Pasek, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
Archaeologists did not identify the surrounding building or its purpose.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The Marine Corps has identified the two U.S. service members killed in a vehicle crash earlier this week in New Mexico along the southern border.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
Sixty-two percent of white American adults identify as Christian, and 61% of American Christians identify as white.
—Michael Pasek, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
Archaeologists did not identify the surrounding building or its purpose.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identify
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The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s letter noted that the one-year term of vehicle leases is often the result of state statutes or rules that distinguish a vehicle lease from a rental for sales tax purposes and set the minimum term for a lease at one year.—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Loveland’s ability to separate from defenders is what distinguished him.—
Adam Jahns,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Workers associated with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) started arriving in offices shortly after President Donald Trump's inauguration in January.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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What’s more, a 2019 study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that diets adequate in vitamin A, vitamin K, magnesium, zinc, and copper were associated with a lower risk of premature death—but only if those vitamins came from food rather than supplements.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
28 Apr. 2025
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Regulators can pinpoint precise interventions, and cities can compete on measurable impacts, not vague promises.—
Ingmar Rentzhog,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The evaluation assesses the potential of your case right from the start, saving you valuable time by pinpointing the most promising path forward and providing you with a clear plan outlining exactly what comes next.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Filtering water, practicing good hygiene, and cleaning cooking implements correlated with avoiding that complaint.—
Wes Siler,
Outside Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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There’s some mapping from the quantum mechanical system to actually a geometrical description in which the distance between the qubits says something about how strongly they’re correlated.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Those few minutes sent students scrambling for cover and barricading themselves around campus until authorities found them.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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With Mark Scheifele and Connor cycling on the outside, trying desperately to find a chance in the middle, Iafallo drove to the net and jumped on a Scheifele rebound, scoring the game-tying goal while off balance in the slot.—
Jeremy Rutherford,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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No injuries connected to the product have been reported.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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In November 2001, President George W. Bush issued a military order authorizing the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of being connected to terrorism.—
Andrea Seielstad,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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They can be used to diagnose muscle or bone conditions, identify bone breaks or fractures, locate tumors, infection or blood clots, help guide doctors during surgeries, biopsies or radiation therapy, and find places of internal bleeding after trauma.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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The winning photographers were located in countries across the world from Bangladesh to Columbia to Russia and were awarded according to the regions they were located in.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Engineering strength depends on an interpretive framework that relates forces, the size of an object and their ratio − which represents mechanical stress.—
Zachary del Rosario,
The Conversation,
18 Apr. 2025
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Jennifer is a senior writer at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Identify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identify. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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