fingerprint
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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
Like, I can see someone’s been pointing at it, there’s a nice fingerprint mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Every brain is as unique as a fingerprint and has potential for growth," Cook said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 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
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“His fingerprints are everywhere in this industry. His impact extends far beyond the performances we see on screen — it’s woven into the very fabric of Hollywood.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
These signals act like molecular fingerprints, allowing researchers to determine the chemical structure of the material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Mr. Burger’s fingerprints are all over last week’s report, which was partly funded by the U.S. government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
EES, rolled out fully in April, involves passengers having their fingerprints registered and photograph taken to enter the Schengen Area.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Bertillon had barely been buried before his successor declared that fingerprints were the future.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Sardar Khan, 41, was sitting in a large tent at Omari camp near the crossing, where people get a return certificate and are fingerprinted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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
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
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
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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
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 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
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