identity cards

noun

plural of identity card
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 By document type, national identity cards are number one, followed by a driver’s license and then a passport in third. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 July 2026 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. — 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
  1. identifications
  2. documents
  3. witnesses
  4. evidences
  5. documentations
  6. ID cards
  7. identification cards
Noun
  • 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
Definition of identifications
Noun
  • Available documents indicate the warrant was related to the traffic case involving his driver’s license, although the extradition file does not specify its exact origin.
    — Susana Erazo, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • The New York Times reported Thursday that the documents released by the White House did not back up his claims.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • The department’s homicide detectives and crime scene investigators took over the stabbing investigation, collecting evidence and questioning witnesses.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • Initial reports indicated a fire had broken out on the vessel, but authorities later determined witnesses had mistaken steam for smoke, the fire department said in a news release.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
Definition of witnesses
Noun
  • 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
  • This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of evidences
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
  • Passport Holder Keep your passport easily accessible for hotel check-in with a passport holder that includes space for other essentials like boarding passes, credit cards, ID cards, and more.
    — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026
  • They were given until June 12 to modify signs, brochures, ID cards and the center's website.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Definition of ID cards
Noun
  • But authorities said two identification cards were also found in Horsch’s vehicle and raised more questions.
    — Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • That evidence [passports and identification cards] could send him to federal prison for life.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
Definition of identification cards

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“Identity cards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20cards. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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