fingerprint
Example Sentences
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“Has she been in jail before? Because they can tell who you are by your fingerprints.”
From Literature
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Mahmood said there is "always concern" when a new technology is adopted, adding this previously applied to the use of fingerprinting and DNA samples.
From BBC
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
Remarkably, this didn't make Reece suspicious, even when the group later discovered the "bloody" fingerprints on the picture.
From BBC
He said officers had asked him for his fingerprints, but he refused, and he was let go only after about 30 minutes, having shown them a photo of his passport.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.