fingerprint
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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
Researchers found that those with endometriosis had a distinct hormone fingerprint, including high levels of some androgens.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Like, I can see someone’s been pointing at it, there’s a nice fingerprint mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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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The system relies on facial recognition and fingerprints instead of the age-old practice of getting your passport stamped at a booth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Greek officials contacted Interpol and American authorities were able to identify her fingerprints.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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
“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
The only sign that anything had happened here was a smudge on the glass wall—probably Jonah’s own fingerprints, smeared against the glass when he’d scrambled out a window.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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I wasn’t fingerprinted the next day at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station ahead of a Eurostar train to London, either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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 gradually be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
This time, 5,000 men were fingerprinted in the space of a month - and Headley was caught.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
Daniel Ellsberg was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, and released on $50,000 bail.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
It was a sort of fingerprinting before fingerprinting; it was more like bodyprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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