identification parade

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identification parade

noun identification parades

  1. A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime. He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking

    Similar: identity parade, lineup, police lineup

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@misc{identification_parade_2026,
  title = {identification parade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/identification%20parade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}