fingerprint
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By measuring the relative amounts of these isotopes, scientists can identify a material's chemical fingerprint.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 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
The only way to match a fingerprint was to get lucky—and since there were almost a million entries in Bertillon’s files, a detective would have to get really lucky.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
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
A necklace, its square blue sapphires girdled by glittering diamonds coated in dust, except where a few fingerprints allowed the light to strike through.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
I wasn’t fingerprinted the next day at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station ahead of a Eurostar train to London, either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Asylum seekers are fingerprinted on arrival in the UK and checked against UK police databases, but these would not necessarily show a conviction from another country.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
Daniel Ellsberg was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, and released on $50,000 bail.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
You can still be tracked through cookies, browser fingerprinting, account logins and other methods.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
Chemical fingerprinting indicates that microbial sources, including wetlands, inland waters, reservoirs, and agriculture, were responsible for most of the observed changes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 2026
Locard believed in a brand-new method of identification: fingerprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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