identity card

noun

Definition of identity cardnext
as in identification
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 card 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 When the elderly woman’s identity card expired, the son put on makeup, a wig and her clothes in order to pose as his mother and renew her card – something that must be done in person in Italy, the spokesperson said. — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025 Even her Italian identity card from 1951 listed her occupation as casalinga, housewife. — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for identity card
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identity card
  1. identification
  2. evidence
  3. document
  4. documentation
  5. witness
Noun
  • Teams working with agencies or freelancers can make identification of synthetic elements a delivery requirement and allocate tagging responsibility and liability in the contract.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • Mitchell’s key points of identification with her handiwork have shifted.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2026
Definition of identification
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  • Businesses should ask what their systems can do without supervision today and what evidence would show autonomy increasing faster than their controls.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Kohberger will need to show this through evidence, Jackson said.
    — Emily Smith, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of evidence
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  • The suspect spent time in the hospital and was ordered to report to the Community Supervisions and Corrections Department upon his release, according to court documents.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026
  • Charging documents indicate that Abarca had a physical altercation with his ex-wife during the incident, and missing persons reports were briefly filed for both Abarca and the couple’s toddler son in the following days.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
Definition of document
Noun
  • Do not undergo or pay for any treatment before reading detailed documentation of the procedure.
    — Ella Moore July 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • To achieve genuine industrial independence, SIMA must gradually develop expertise in supplier qualification, design management, configuration control, engineering documentation, and lifecycle support.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
Definition of documentation
Noun
  • Retained for criminal defense work, Dwyer bribed an NYPD officer to access a confidential federal law enforcement database, obtaining personal information on government witnesses.
    — David Niccolini, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • The former husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children, took the stand Monday as the prosecution’s first witness in her triple-murder trial.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Definition of witness

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“Identity card.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20card. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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