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IDs

verb

present tense third-person singular of ID

as in identifies

to find out or establish the identity of studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes

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The cops don’t entirely buy that their serial killer is a high-school student, even as Bret identifies Robert by name.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
In Colorado, nearly a quarter of the overall population identifies as Hispanic or Latino.

— Hillary Lum, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

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