reidentify
verbEtymology From re- + identify.
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To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
- To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68:
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To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
- The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN:
- By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
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- ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]2022 April 19, Dwight Newman, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454:
- Related terms
- misidentify, reidentification, unidentified