identifier
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That dollar amount served as a unique identifier in a separate disclosure table showing OBDC’s valuation methods for different categories of Level 3 investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Through the children not in school registers, there will be a single unique identifier for every child and a requirement for every council to have multi-agency child protection team.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2025
The artist’s last name is written in block letters along one edge, but there’s some confusion over whether the artist or the school added it later as an identifier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
Furthermore, some critics of Rapid DNA have warned that by probing into a unique identifier that reveals sensitive medical information, the technology is a violation of privacy and civil liberties.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
It is customary for the first identifier to have the species named after him, or any name he chooses, so long as it is not already in use.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
These patterns act as unique optical identifiers that are difficult to replicate, making them useful for anti-counterfeiting and traceability applications.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
"Just seeing an Asian American, her struggle with her family and expectation, there's a lot of identifiers there that we take with us," Christine says.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
Yet the census-wallahs shoehorned Indians who had, says Ms. Truschke, “long used discrete identifiers such as Vaishnavites, Shaivites, Shakta worshippers, Lingayats, Satnamis, Ramanandis, bhaktas, and Brahmins” into one broad category.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
She plays the tape backward and forward, stops and starts, scribbles down identifiers she missed.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
