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fingerprint

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

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

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

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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