reidentify

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reidentify

verb reidentifies · reidentifying · reidentified

transitive 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?
Opposite: deidentify, anonymize
intransitive To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else). The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]

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@misc{reidentify_2026,
  title = {reidentify},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reidentify},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}