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

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

Police had fingerprint evidence linking a high-profile councillor to a poison pen letter up to 12 months before he went on to target another politician in a "persistent and wicked" hate mail campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

Uhmma drives away from the fair without a prize, only a deep fingerprint between her eyebrows.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

It felt wrong, getting fingerprints on this brand-new MacBook screen on purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

“I mean, it’s unbelievable how much of this is done with the pads of his fingers. And all of his fingerprints and thumbprints are crystal clear in the paint.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

According to the National Park Service, enough remains were recovered to use DNA, dental records and fingerprints to identify all 40 victims aboard United Airlines flight 93, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

After all, our fingerprints matched, other details matched—I’m sure they thought the details that didn’t fit were just part of my attempts to hide.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Pomona, where he had gone to be fingerprinted for his visa application.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

For hours the process continued as we were shuttled from one room and official to another, questioned, fingerprinted, sent on to the next post.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Portugal and Italy do not plan on exempting British nationals from Europe's new fingerprinting and facial scanning checks, the European Commission has confirmed.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

This technique—the use of fingerprinting to identify a person—was brand-new.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day