as in identifications
something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be
Motorists were stopped at a checkpoint and required to present identity cards before traveling any further.
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Recent Examples of identity cards
At one six-story abandoned scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, investigators found rooms kitted out to resemble the offices of police forces from Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and China, complete with fake uniforms, insignia, and identity cards.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
7 Apr. 2026
Thales’s Singapore facility now produces more than 200 million banking cards, 12 million identity cards, and nearly 10 million passport data pages annually for customers worldwide.
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Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
The program was created in 2005 to increase security and authentication procedures for driver's licenses and identity cards.
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Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
1 Feb. 2026
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
7 Apr. 2026
Thales’s Singapore facility now produces more than 200 million banking cards, 12 million identity cards, and nearly 10 million passport data pages annually for customers worldwide.
—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
The program was created in 2005 to increase security and authentication procedures for driver's licenses and identity cards.
—
Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identity cards
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As standard practice, the military makes public identifications 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.
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The terms could be pictures of plants, and the definitions would be their identifications.
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According to court documents reviewed by TMZ, Jean filed for divorce on June 3 in Nashville, and cited the same date as their date of separation.
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Court documents say Blakemore was a prolific drug trafficker for the Highs street gang, selling fentanyl at the intersection of Broadway and Lyndale in north Minneapolis.
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Many California counties do not employ a single defense investigator who can interview witnesses, review police reports, visit crime scenes and retrieve video surveillance footage.
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Two witnesses intervened, allowing the woman to get away as the man fled southbound on Soto Road.
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This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.
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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.
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Last October, the cemetery was vandalized with historical documentations and markers as well as plaques with poems being removed and torn down.
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They were given until June 12 to modify signs, brochures, ID cards and the center's website.
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Facial recognition also significantly reduces the possibility of forgery or fraud when compared with ID cards or passwords.
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That evidence [passports and identification cards] could send him to federal prison for life.
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Within 180 days, Treasury and banking regulators must consider revisions to customer identification requirements, including the risks associated with using foreign consular identification cards.
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“Identity cards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20cards. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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