Identify
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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It takes several days to identify the brand of nail polish that the murderer applied to his victim postmortem, and even then the brand is sold everywhere, so it's a bit moot.
Source: Omniscient Database -
She could smell Beckett's pheromones when interacting with Castle and identify an oil painting as a forgery through a steel briefcase, yet somehow misidentified freon (used in air conditioners) as nail polish remover.
Source: The Nose Knows
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