IDENTITY CARD Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

identity card

noun

Definition of identity card

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

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Noun

The display was set up by police, with authorities saying some of the bodies recovered from the floods were in an advanced state of decomposition, making physical identification difficult.

— Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Things that would focus more around identification and how these people died.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of identification

Noun

The case is nearly 30 years old, which has affected the kind of evidence presented in court.

— Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
At the time, Duncan’s attorneys with a New Orleans nonprofit had filed a post-conviction appeal but did not have the resources to conduct a fuller investigation and uncover new evidence required to win.

— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of evidence

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In the document containing questions to ask Entergy witnesses, the commissioners were pressed by the commissioners' staff to ask utility officials about the payments not being treated as a contribution in aid of construction.

— Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
The panel of 16 jurors, four of whom are alternates, heard testimony from 24 prosecution witnesses and three defense witnesses over nine days.

— Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026

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