Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for fingerprint. Search instead for fingerposts.
Definitions

fingerprint

[fing-ger-print] / ˈfɪŋ gərˌprɪnt /
NOUN
mark on finger
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Each spectrum acts as a distinctive fingerprint, revealing information about a star's temperature and chemical composition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Shulaker said he took a different approach, building miniaturized sensors that capture the overall aroma fingerprint of a sample.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

In the shadowshaper portrait, OP Vernon still had a black fingerprint over his face.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

By examining the chemical fingerprints inside these old stars, scientists can infer what the first stars were like and how they began enriching the cosmos with its earliest chemical elements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 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

If Bertillon suspected someone, he could take their fingerprints and see if they matched.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

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

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

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

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

He was brought to the Amtrak ticket counter, and now Zeitoun saw that they were fingerprinting and photographing each of them.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com