IDENTIFICATION CARDS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

identification cards

noun

plural of identification card

as in witnesses

something presented to show that someone is the person they claim to be We did not realize that identification cards were required to enter the government building.

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Recent Examples of identification cards Those numbers include 759 false identification cards confiscated, 378 alcohol-possession-by-a-minor violations and 98 fake-ID citations during the calendar-year reporting period, according to Oxford Police. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The older cards will gradually be phased out as Floridians renew or replace their licenses and identification cards. — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 The registration fees, along with driver’s license costs and other fees related to the California Highway Patrol and identification cards collected by the DMV, are the primary funding sources of the CHP and DMV. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The money will help Haiti’s government update its voter lists and procure 350,000 blank identification cards, the OAS said in a statement. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Officers also found numerous identification cards, Social Security cards, and checks that did not belong to Bryant or her passenger, according to police. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026 The board also sent out election notification and voter identification cards to voters with outdated information based on the old maps. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 But authorities said two identification cards were also found in Horsch’s vehicle and raised more questions. — Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026 That evidence [passports and identification cards] could send him to federal prison for life. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026

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Noun

Investigators are seeking witnesses and video, and more arrests are possible.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
The investigation into the violence was ongoing, and police asked witnesses to come forward.

— Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of witnesses

Noun

The exhibition celebrates these workers, many of them immigrants, through exhibits like the photographs of Robert Doisneau, who worked for Renault full-time from 1934 to 1939.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
Interactive environmental exhibits would reflect Garcia’s advocacy for coral reefs and rainforest preservation, with charitable initiatives supporting ocean conservation, music education and the arts.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhibits

Noun

Voters show their identity cards while waiting in a queue before casting their votes for the second and final phase of Rajasthan’s urban local body elections in Jaipur, India, on September 11, 2026.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
By document type, national identity cards are number one, followed by a driver’s license and then a passport in third.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 July 2026

Definition of identity cards

Noun

The documents also included physical descriptions of the accused.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
The conversational layer may be what a borrower sees, but the difficult work happens deeper in the stack, where documents, rules, calculations, decisions, and transaction states have to remain connected.

— Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

Noun

For example, using a quantum computer to break the current RSA-2048 encryption employed in website security, banking and electronic ID cards would require magic states that would fail only once in 10 billion tries.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Nonetheless, the scale of the leak is staggering, and includes not just drivers licenses, but 10 million ID cards, over three million travel documents, and over half a million medical cards as well, representing over 170 million individuals total.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

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