identity card

noun

Definition of identity cardnext
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 Unlike OCIs, NRIs have full citizenship and are accordingly entitled to a passport and a voter’s identity card. — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026 At one six-story abandoned scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, investigators found rooms kitted out to resemble the offices of police forces from Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and China, complete with fake uniforms, insignia, and identity cards. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 Apr. 2026 Due to widespread noncompliance, lack of funding and pressure from the CCBA, the federal government stopped enforcing the identity card requirement, a 1995 paper by now-University of Michigan law professor Ellen Katz stated. — Ko Lyn Cheang, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for identity card
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identity card
  1. identification
  2. evidence
  3. document
  4. documentation
  5. witness
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  • In its latest court filing, AFA acknowledged that Spirit agreed that employees’ identification numbers won’t be part of what’s sold, for example, because they’ll be replaced by randomized identifiers.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The system is designed to continue denying communications until the underlying protocol changes, at which point the signal-identification and response process can begin again.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
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  • The trial provided no evidence that this test will reduce cancer deaths by 25%.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • There's a preponderance of evidence for a good November for Democrats.
    — Nathan Gonzales CQ-Roll Call, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of evidence
Noun
  • Lavie used dating apps to steal from wealthy older men and younger women in Westlake Village, West Hollywood, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, prosecutors said in charging documents.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Police found numerous weapons and anti-government materials in the defendants’ vehicle and Huntsville apartment, according to court documents.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of document
Noun
  • Whereas Riis uses documentation to expose, Rosler questions conventional representation.
    — J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Reviewing these details can help clarify which process applies and what documentation or next steps may be relevant.
    — Karen Koehler, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of documentation
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  • Clements believes audiences can similarly become witnesses to the perspectives artists are documenting.
    — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The name of the witness at the heart of those allegations has not been disclosed.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of witness

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“Identity card.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identity%20card. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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