fingerprint
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By measuring the relative amounts of these isotopes, scientists can identify a material's chemical fingerprint.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
He said he accessed her phone the same way she had accessed his, by using his fingerprint.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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
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
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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It’s genuinely lovely—and I also can’t stop thinking about the invisible fingerprints left by the unnamed censor on our slightly altered text.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 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
It even features traces of fingerprints and brush hairs are still visible.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
"The fingerprints were received for your daughter. Everything is fine. She has her interview date."
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
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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
You can still be tracked through cookies, browser fingerprinting, account logins and other methods.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
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
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