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Related terms for identify - synonyms, antonyms and sentences with identify, similar meaning.

• distinguish
• identification
• identifying

Opposite meaning

• misrecognize
• misdesignate
• miss the point
• make a comparison
• be on the fence
• sit on the fence
• compare with

Common usage

• distribute over
• class system
• acknowledge
• author's purpose
• investigate
• descriptive language
• synchronize

Sentence Examples

Proper usage in context.

• To love someone is to identify with them Aristotle
• Can you identify this plant?
• The contact would identify himself simply as Cobra
• The guard wore a cap to identify himself
• To identify a new gene

1. identified

Rhymes with identified.

• Identified in a sentence
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adjective. ['aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd'] having the identity known or established.

• unacknowledged
• decertified
• declassified
• disqualified
• electrified
• exemplified

Sentences with identified

1. Verb, past tense A follow-up in 2012 identified several areas where recent college graduate fall short in the workplace. 2. Verb, past participle Talk about how the people could feel better if they had identified negative feelings, such as anger. 3. Adjective Solving this is as simple as running a scan and removing any identified malware with an up-to-date anti-malware program.

Quotes about identified

1. A S*H" aria-label="Link to M A S*H"> M A S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. - Loretta Swit 2. We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. - Ram Dass 3. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould

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Synonyms of identifying

• as in distinguishing
• as in pinpointing
• as in associating
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Thesaurus Definition of identifying

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Synonyms & Similar Words

• distinguishing
• distinctive
• characteristic
• discriminating
• unmistakable
• symptomatic
• diagnostical
• identifiable
• idiosyncratic
• paradigmatic
• archetypical

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncharacteristic

identifying

Thesaurus Definition of identifying  (Entry 2 of 2)

• pinpointing
• determining
• recognizing
• investigating
• singling (out)
• putting one's finger on
• discovering
• scrutinizing
• picking out
• camouflaging
• counterfeiting
• associating
• correlating
• tying (together)
• tieing (together)
• lumping (together)
• differentiating
• contrasting
• setting off

Thesaurus Entries Near identifying

identifying (with)

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“Identifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identifying. Accessed 5 Aug. 2024.

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‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy

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By David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt is a senior writer at The Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Great Recession.

• Published Sept. 17, 2022 Updated June 21, 2023

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The United States has experienced deep political turmoil several times before over the past century. The Great Depression caused Americans to doubt the country’s economic system. World War II and the Cold War presented threats from global totalitarian movements. The 1960s and ’70s were marred by assassinations, riots, a losing war and a disgraced president.

These earlier periods were each more alarming in some ways than anything that has happened in the United States recently. Yet during each of those previous times of tumult, the basic dynamics of American democracy held firm. Candidates who won the most votes were able to take power and attempt to address the country’s problems.

The current period is different. As a result, the United States today finds itself in a situation with little historical precedent. American democracy is facing two distinct threats, which together represent the most serious challenge to the country’s governing ideals in decades.

The first threat is acute: a growing movement inside one of the country’s two major parties — the Republican Party — to refuse to accept defeat in an election.

The violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress , meant to prevent the certification of President Biden’s election, was the clearest manifestation of this movement, but it has continued since then. Hundreds of elected Republican officials around the country falsely claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Some of them are running for statewide offices that would oversee future elections, potentially putting them in position to overturn an election in 2024 or beyond.

“There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office,” said Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studies democracy.

Vote Margins by State in Presidential Elections since 1988

Senate representation by state.

Residents of less populated states like Wyoming and North Dakota, who are disproportionately white, have outsize influence.

1 voter in Wyoming

has similar representation as

1 voter in North Dakota

6 voters in Connecticut

7 voters in Alabama

18 voters in Michigan

59 voters in California

has similar

representation as

Landslides in 2020 House Elections

There were about twice as many districts where a Democratic House candidate won by at least 50 percentage points as there were districts where a Republican candidate won by as much.

Landslide (one candidate won

by at least 50 percentage points)

Barbara Lee

Calif. District 13

Jerry Nadler

N.Y. District 10

Diana DeGette

Colo. District 1

Donald Payne Jr.

N.J. District 10

Jesús García

Ill. District 4

Landslide (one candidate won by at least 50 percentage points)

Presidential Appointments of Supreme Court Justices

Supreme Court appointments

Presidential election winners

Popular vote

Electoral College

Party that nominated a justice

David H. Souter (until 2009)

Clarence Thomas

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (until 2020)

Stephen G. Breyer (until 2022)

John G. Roberts Jr.

Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Sonia Sotomayor

Elena Kagan

Neil M. Gorsuch

Brett M. Kavanaugh

Amy Coney Barrett

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Court

Presidential election

nominated a justice

Souter (until 2009)

Ginsburg (until 2020)

Breyer (until 2022)

State Legislators and Election Lies

The share of Republican state legislators who have taken steps, as of May 2022, to discredit or overturn the 2020 presidential election results

Pennsylvania

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