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fingerprint

[fing-ger-print] / ˈfɪŋ gərˌprɪnt /
NOUN
mark on finger
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This underlying pattern acts like a mathematical fingerprint.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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

Police had fingerprint evidence linking a high-profile councillor to a poison pen letter up to 12 months before he went on to target another politician in a "persistent and wicked" hate mail campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

I hold up the photo and put my finger on the glass, leaving my fingerprint in a smudge.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

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

Their colors are especially valuable because they provide clues about the chemical makeup of their surfaces, much like fingerprints that reveal an object's identity and history.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

His team found that by December last year, nearly 90% had AI fingerprints on them.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

LOS ANGELES—It felt wrong, getting fingerprints on this brand-new MacBook screen on purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

If he'd had the right materials, he would have dusted the cooler for fingerprints.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

I wasn’t fingerprinted at the booth and still don’t understand why.

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

The King's brother has been arrested, taken from his home on the King's estate at Sandringham, photographed and fingerprinted.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

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

Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

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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