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 Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
According to city documents, the Development Process Committee conditionally approved the annexation, rezoning and variances in July.

— Emily McLeod, CBS News, 7 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

Noun

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

Computer programming took decades to develop recognizable career paths through universities, employer training, certificates and boot camps.

— Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Be sure to prepare documents such as proof of funds and criminal record certificates.

— Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of certificates

Noun

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

Noun

Displaying oil paintings, watercolors, studies, and multiple proofs alongside the full corpus of his etchings, the PMA show allows the viewer to discover the process of etching alongside Homer.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2026
Sol Ultra with finding the core ideas behind their proofs and construction.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 31 July 2026

Definition of proofs

Noun

How to organize documents so nothing gets lost Keep passports, identification, reservation confirmations and emergency contacts together in one place.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026
The traveler is left managing multiple confirmations, while employees may lack a complete picture of the guest’s plans.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026

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