fingerprint

It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The molecules of DNA pass through a nanopore - a tiny hole - which reveals the tumour's unique genomic fingerprint.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Jurors were also informed that Walters’ partial fingerprint was found on the white Spencer’s bag holding the cache of stolen firearms that Oxford turned over to police.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Roberts sent the envelope that contained the threatening letter for forensic analysis, and a fingerprint returned a match to White, according to the criminal complaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The walk was an indelible mark of identification, like a fingerprint.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It’s genuinely lovely—and I also can’t stop thinking about the invisible fingerprints left by the unnamed censor on our slightly altered text.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026

He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Their UV spectra contain fingerprints of chemical elements in their atmospheres while also revealing details about the stellar winds carrying material away from their surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

A decade after it was acquired by the now-defunct Hudson’s Bay, the fingerprints of women entrepreneurs with the name “Gilt” on their résumés are still all over New York’s technology sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“I’ll bet he didn’t touch the glass. Are his fingerprints on it?”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

As a teenager, she applied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, paid her fee and was fingerprinted for a background check.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Because Cynthia’s white Fiero had been released to Gonzalez before it could be properly fingerprinted, police said it wasn’t useful to the case either.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

The King's brother has been arrested, taken from his home on the King's estate at Sandringham, photographed and fingerprinted.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

From Sunday, non-EU travellers entering Europe's Schengen open-borders zone will gradually be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

Our right to be in England had to be double and triple confirmed, with sheaves of paperwork and fingerprinted identification cards in addition to the new kind of passports we’d been issued.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

The application was submitted, and Ortiz Jara was completing a fingerprinting appointment for the application when he was detained in May.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Most states need to send cyclospora specimens to the CDC for genetic fingerprinting because their own public-health laboratories can’t do it, Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

They don’t prevent you from accidentally sharing personal information online, protect you from phishing links or stop you from being tracked through cookies and browser fingerprinting.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

He was brought to the Amtrak ticket counter, and now Zeitoun saw that they were fingerprinting and photographing each of them.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers