identities

plural of identity
as in personalities
the set of qualities that make a person different from other people children begin to form their own identity by the age of two

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Recent Examples of identities Researchers therefore began exploring partial reprogramming, briefly activating the Yamanaka factors in ways that appear to rejuvenate cells while maintaining their specialized identities. Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026 The regulations would require all ballot envelope designs to be pre-approved by the Postal Service and that states upload the identities of those who are to receive them into a still-inactive online portal. ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 To keep their identities somewhat of a secret, Freddy and his traveling companions agreed to speak to a reporter on Saturday night but politely declined to reveal their last names or take a picture that includes their faces. Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The humanity of her characters transcended their disabilities — yet in a way that’s too simple, since the movie insisted on how central the disabilities were to their identities. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026 Aguilar agreed that the Little Village’s annual parade, among the dozens of other events citywide, was created as a safe place to celebrate the cultural identities of Mexican Americans. Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 By August 2026, its operations had killed hundreds of people, often without public evidence to establish a crime or even the basic identities of those targeted. Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026 Three Breaches This Could Have Prevented AU10TIX, 2024 AU10TIX verifies identities for TikTok, Uber, X, Coinbase and PayPal. Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026 Modern organizations have employees, contractors, administrators, service accounts, applications and machine identities accessing sensitive systems every day. Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • Cinematic pretense and the kinds political leaders and media personalities use to sell ideas are often one and the same.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Had the property lasted longer, Harris would have been one of the personalities contributing to it.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • New characters are introduced, many interesting details are offered, yet the narration never loses its focus, every sentence adding to the characters’ mounting sense of powerlessness in the face of such a tragic death.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In its premiere, this was a Korean Cherry Orchard performed in Korean for audiences that needed no primer on its setting, the rapidly changing globalized city where the characters’ home is threatening to disappear.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Identities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identities. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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