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
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Court documents say detectives matched surveillance images with police records and witness identifications.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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The military will now use 31 religious affiliations, down from more than 200, which included many small Protestant denominations as well as identifications for Wiccans, atheists and agnostics.—
Tiffany Stanley,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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There were no dedicated, full-time employees in that arm, which handles verifying and logging all distribution expenses for accounting statements, other than Neon former vice president of finance James Wehrfritz, until 2020, when Friscia was hired, per court documents.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
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Court documents reveal new details Court documents filed late last week provide some new insight into the case, as well as into Mendoza Hernandez’s background.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Officials could not previously prosecute Garcia Moran for assault and battery due to uncooperative witnesses who feared coming to court, citing the presence of immigration enforcement agents lurking around Virginia courthouses.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Apr. 2026
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No fingerprints, no witnesses, no murder weapon.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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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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Many co-ops are hiring security guards to watch the door and check QR codes or ID cards issued to residents.—
Anne Kadet,
Curbed,
17 Apr. 2026
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On Tuesday, Newsom said the DMV would add new digital signatures to the back of drivers’ licenses and ID cards so card readers could detect whether a signature was valid or had been altered.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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In it was a thick stack of identification cards that included old driver's licenses, her Social Security card, and dozens of work IDs issued by the federal government.—
Vanessa G. Sánchez,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2026
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House Bill 3015 would allow Service Oklahoma to partner with businesses to issue mobile or digital versions of state identification cards, driver’s licenses or permits.—
Emma Murphy,
Oklahoma Voice,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Identity cards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20cards. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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