fingerprint
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This underlying pattern acts like a mathematical fingerprint.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Connors' DNA was found on an airbag and his fingerprint on a can of Red Bull.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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
But the fingerprint on the glass pane could still be useful.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
Their colors are especially valuable because they provide clues about the chemical makeup of their surfaces, much like fingerprints that reveal an object's identity and history.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
It even features traces of fingerprints and brush hairs are still visible.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Everyone in Holland had to carry ID now, with their photograph, fingerprints and other personal details.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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An agent there said I must have been fingerprinted at the airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Garfield had yet to be arrested, but Jodie had been searched, fingerprinted, placed in a cell and, after interview, was released on bail.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 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
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
Clerks at the Amtrak desk will happily show visitors the place where prisoners were fingerprinted, where their heights were determined.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
As a high-schooler Busby performed locally; a music career beckoned, but based on his academic performance an FBI recruiter offered him a position in the bureau’s fingerprinting lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The study, titled 'Detrital zircon-apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge's megaliths', was published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
VPNs mask your IP address and encrypt your traffic, but websites still can collect data on you through cookies, browser fingerprinting and account logins.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
It was a sort of fingerprinting before fingerprinting; it was more like bodyprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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