identify
verb (used with object)
to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of.
identifying
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present participleof identify.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Carrick's position at Old Trafford is under major threat following the club's poor start to the season, with work towards identifying his successor believed to be ongoing.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Research on cash transfers is encouraging, Wolfolds said, but "the harder challenge may be identifying who has been affected by AI."
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Anthropic ran roughshod over the rights of countless creatives and rightsholders,” the lawsuit charged, “using their works without permission, removing identifying information from those works, and keeping ill-gotten gains for itself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
His company spent the rest of the year preparing for the season, handling jobs like sourcing costumes and identifying potential real estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
As far as his colleagues were concerned, his work was of marginal interest unless it could be shown to result in a method for identifying longitude.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
