IDENTIFICATIONS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

identifications

noun

plural of identification

as in documents

something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be You'll need two forms of identification to register to vote.

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Recent Examples of identifications The office will confirm identifications and ensure proper paperwork is filed before releasing the remains back to family. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects. — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2026 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 The terms could be pictures of plants, and the definitions would be their identifications. — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026 In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting. — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 June 2026 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 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

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Noun

The Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo and your 8th House of Shared Resources, Trust, Intimacy, and Mutual Support, bringing clarity to money, documents, access, care, or emotional expectations.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
In 1968 Britain considered evicting the family by force, with declassified documents showing a plan to raze the fort.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of documents

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

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The client keeps legal title and is the only party who can initiate a withdrawal, which requires separate video verifications, liveness checks and screening for duress.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
This option has been considered in the past, but the USDA remained in charge of the verifications, albeit with Mexican security forces accompanying them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of verifications

Noun

Pilots who fly commercial planes with over six passengers aboard also need medical certificates issued by official aviation medical examiners, the outlet reported.

— Saleen Martin, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Additionally, researchers wrote, an analysis of death certificates of football players who did not donate their brains revealed another 215 whose certificates listed a neurodegenerative disease as a cause of death.

— Becky Sullivan, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of certificates

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This requires moving away from the traditional way of performing the manual heavy lifting of pulling data, stitching spreadsheets and running validations line-by-line to a reviewer position.

— Gargi Ray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Meanwhile, 1,740,000 of those entries that passed the file validations stage (about 15 percent) have been liquidated and are in the process of being refunded.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of validations

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Using his past experience as his touchstone, today at age 59, Arnett makes Tennessee brown whiskey his way, distilling multiple products, proofs and flavors — one sure to hit the mark with his customers.

— Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026
All whiskeys were aged in #3 char barrels, with barrel entry proofs ranging between 110 and 120.

— David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of proofs

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Delivery updates, tracking links and confirmations are exactly what customers want instantly, and automation beats humans every time.

— Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Individual booking confirmations and online schedules will be updated progressively to reflect the new voyage plans.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of confirmations

Noun

Tome is also accused of intentionally deleting digital evidences, police said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026
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

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