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identifier

[ahy-den-tuh-fahy-er, i-den-] / aɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ ər, ɪˈdɛn- /


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The way it works is guests’ faces are scanned, converted into a numerical identifier and matched with ticket data.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

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

The contact sent her a link to a chatbot on messaging app Telegram which told her they would be contacted by a person with a unique identifier.

From BBC ● May 25, 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

In the spot where the identifier should have been, there were instead a censor’s thick black box and the words “I.D. Temporarily Removed from System.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

However, the investigator added, the company scrubs data to remove personal or business identifiers in case contractors aren’t abiding by its instructions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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

She plays the tape backward and forward, stops and starts, scribbles down identifiers she missed.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline


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