"identify" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it as a verb to mean "to recognize or deduce the identity of someone or something from their characteristics," or as a noun to mean "the recognition or deduction of the identity of someone or something from their characteristics." Example sentence: I was able to identify the suspect by the scar on his face.
It gives me the right to identify you.
Our referral rates are scrutinised at CCG levels to identify outliers, especially in overstretched hospital specialties.
"There's still nothing to identify a specific motive as to why Mr Lee took these actions," Duke said.
Often, half the people attending have been in leftwing politics for years, and the other half are in community action groups and no longer identify as left; it can be difficult, sitting between them, to see how the meeting could ever tip into something bigger.
No one I speak to likes the word "activist", as Maeve Cohen, from the Post-Crash Economics Society explains to me on the phone: "If you have people who identify as 'activists', then everybody else is a non-activist, who can leave the activities to the activists.
Carswell, whose father, Wilson, was one of the first doctors to identify HIV/Aids in Uganda in the 1980s, also made it clear that he was not at ease with the declaration by Farage that he felt uncomfortable when he could not hear English being spoken on a commuter train.
His libertarianism, if implemented, would be nothing short of a social and economic disaster; but his critique of crony capitalism – of the fusion between corporate interests and the state – is one many on the left could easily identify with.
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