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.
—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
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
Noun
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The 1,121 new species found between mid-2025 and mid-2026 marks a 54 percent increase in annual identifications.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 May 2026
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The whopping number of discoveries marks a 54% jump in identifications in a single year, the researchers said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Per the charging documents and jail records, Moore is being held without bail at the Clackamas County jail.—
Clare Fisher,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Users can review calendar schedules, access documents, and interact with workplace data through voice commands and touch controls.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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Those developments could have created the impression among witnesses or subpoena targets that Carroll herself was the target of the investigation, even though the Chicago division is actually focused on the entity connected to the funding of the litigation.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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Prior to the confirmation, Bear told followers that witnesses had reportedly seen Matt near a river in Washington before authorities were alerted.—
Deirdre Durkan,
PEOPLE,
31 May 2026
Noun
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This evidences deliberate indifference to foreseeable violence.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
20 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
21 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Make copies of your policy’s declaration page and auto and health ID cards.—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Karabash’s debut film appearance—as Gana, a nurse who steals patients’ ID cards and traffics them for identity theft in Bezbog (2016; Godless)—brought her instant acclaim, fetching her several best actress awards at the Locarno, Sarajevo, and Stockholm film festivals among others.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 May 2026
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Money, gold, phones, and identification cards were collected to be handed to military intelligence.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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Carr also said the smart pass program offers other uses, such as monitoring afterschool activities and student identification cards, but the district does not yet to use those features.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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“Identity cards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20cards. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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