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fingerprint

[fing-ger-print] / ˈfɪŋ gərˌprɪnt /
NOUN
mark on finger
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He admitted that they didn’t turn over the fingerprint evidence and that it would have been helpful to Brooks’ case, according to the memo.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Each element creates its own distinctive set of lines, much like a fingerprint.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Tracing its source poses particular difficulties for two reasons: an incubation period of up to two weeks before symptoms first appear, and lack of a genetic fingerprint, unlike, say, E. coli.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

The nonprofit group also collected more than 130,000 signatures calling for the execution to be halted to allow for "necessary fingerprint and DNA testing".

From BBC May 21, 2026

The pane was hard and smooth, the perfect surface for a fingerprint, and Bertillon was extremely good at lifting prints.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

"This is exciting new evidence that something catastrophic happened at Neptune that completely destroyed its original satellites, and we're getting to see the fingerprints left behind by that process."

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

By then, the San Francisco family will have had their birth certificates notarized, had European officials record their fingerprints and transferred half a million Euros into an international investment fund.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Items belonging to some of the victims were recovered from the car, and Mihai's fingerprints were found on the wine glasses left behind in the men's homes.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The steps at the e-gates: passport scan, photo, fingerprints.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

I nudged her aside, not caring about fingerprints.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

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

From Barron's Oct. 12, 2025

This time, 5,000 men were fingerprinted in the space of a month - and Headley was caught.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

This touched off a parade of boycott leaders who filed inside the courthouse one by one and minutes later came out, freshly booked and fingerprinted, descending the steps into a cheering crowd of spectators.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

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

Because the countries had no official diplomatic ties, it took months of negotiations to arrange that game, and the Iranians required special fingerprinting and security exemptions at the airport.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 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

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

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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