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identifier

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


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You’ll be assigned a unique identifier to validate your registration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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

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

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

"We would like to reiterate that no payment details or order history information has been accessed and the impacted personal data remains limited to basic personal identifiers as advised previously," they said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

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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