IDS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

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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Ideally, over time, these outcomes accumulate into a repository of actioned and labeled data that reflects how an organization identifies risk, prioritizes responses and achieves successful resolutions.

— Terrence McCrossan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
The plan has been in the works since 2022 and identifies more than 30 strategies to raise the recycling rate from 36% to 77% within the next 13 years.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

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The show finds ways to expose the worst in its characters, their pettiest, most vengeful, greediest parts.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Also screening is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, another feature from Cannes, following a successful company director called Gleb, who finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

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