Synonyms for profiling
ˈproʊ faɪ lɪŋpro·fil·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. profilingnoun

   recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people

Matched Categories

1. • Identification

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1. List of paraphrases for "profiling":

   profile, profiles, characterization, characterisation, profiler

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How to use profiling in a sentence?

1. Brent Oxley:

   You look every day to see who's locked up in the jails -- it's racial profiling, really. You're looking for odd names : a Carlos Lopez, not a John Smith.

2. Guy Ben-Porat:

   Both cases are about racial profiling -- people feeling they're being targeted by police because of their skin color.

3. Dana Soehn:

   DNA profiling for bears is relatively new and we had been waiting weeks to get information back, but over the last year... we’ve been able to get lab results back in a two week time period.

4. Christopher Herrmann:

   Police officers are tasked with rebuilding these relationships with their communities that have been fractured as a result of the Floyd protests and as a result of the over-policing, racial profiling, and high-profile killings of Black people.

5. Lorraine Smalls:

   There's a lot of profiling going around.