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

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 team also investigated whether the complete antibody fingerprint could provide more predictive information than a small number of individual biomarkers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

How did he achieve such sheer shade without so much as a pause or a fingerprint?

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

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

Arteta's fingerprints are all over the club - and most importantly the squad.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Fingerprints, silly. If Michelangelo worked on that statue, his fingerprints would be on it.”

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

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

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

He was brought to the Amtrak counter and fingerprinted.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

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

But Bertillonage was already being displaced by a more efficient method of identification that was revolutionizing the world of scientific detection: fingerprinting.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann