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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1. Jason Owens:

   Just by virtue of the fact that we literally encounter people from dozens of countries every year, it doesnt make sense to think that racial profiling would ever pay off for us because we would be missing out on a vast majority the criminal element.

2. Linda Addison:

   For a lot of Black Americans, we have a personal history or a family story of things going bad really fast, vampires and zombies are an escape from police profiling and worries that a teenaged son may not get home.

3. Carl Starr:

   I didn’t feel I was free to go and I wanted to go about my business. And I felt it was a racial profiling stop.

4. Yasmine Harrison:

   I was very shocked by the inhumanity of the attacks and heartbroken for the humanity that was lost, before the attacks and the state of emergency, police brutality and racial and religious profiling were already a reality for many of my fellow citizens. ... It feels a lot like a French version of the Patriot Act is in the making, and we have no control over it.

5. Zayd Atkinson:

   Boulder is essentially saying were going to pay this officer and let him resign for threatening Zayds life, for racially profiling Zayd, if you or I were to do this, we would be criminally charged. We would immediately lose our jobs.