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But it would take nearly 45 years and a prosecutor admitting he failed to turn over key fingerprint evidence before the courts threw out Brooks’ conviction.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 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

An EEG captures patterns of electrical activity and oscillations across brain networks, creating what can be thought of as an electrical fingerprint of the brain.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Researchers found that those with endometriosis had a distinct hormone fingerprint, including high levels of some androgens.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The walk was an indelible mark of identification, like a fingerprint.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The telescope "detected spectral lines," the observatory said, what it called "chemical fingerprints" of "sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact."

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

"They do it so that their fingerprints aren't directly on it," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The result shows that astronomers can locate worlds by identifying the molecular fingerprints of their atmospheres instead of depending entirely on traditional coronagraphic imaging.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

This meant once their fingerprints were received, they'd immediately get assigned an interview date and my sister would avoid aging out.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

When Zach stepped toward us, I wondered if he’d been handcuffed, fingerprinted, photographed, pushed around.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

You can still be tracked through cookies, browser fingerprinting, account logins and other methods.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

To investigate the stones' journey, Curtin scientists used advanced mineral "fingerprinting" methods to study microscopic grains found in rivers near Salisbury Plain in southern England.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026

But fingerprinting was on the rise, and it was beginning to displace the Bertillon system.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day