identifier

Example Sentences

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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

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 serves, so to speak, as an identifier for the body cells.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

This is the goal of trademarks: to serve as a source identifier so you can distinguish your favorite type of fish-shaped cracker or clutch bag from others in the marketplace.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2024

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