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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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object, providing new insights into the composition of comet 3I/ATLAS as it traveled away from the Sun.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

The nonprofit group also collected more than 130,000 signatures calling for the execution to be halted to allow for "necessary fingerprint and DNA testing".

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Yet in much of the country these forensic methods were applied even less consistently than fingerprint and ballistic techniques.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

By then, the San Francisco family will have had their birth certificates notarized, had European officials record their fingerprints and transferred half a million Euros into an international investment fund.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

There are even reports of some older travelers’ fingerprints not being recognized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

On one door we found black markings on the door - dust from where police had been searching for fingerprints as part of the investigation.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

Belky, Enrique’s sister, notices cloudy yellow fingerprints on Maria Isabel’s jeans: glue, a remnant of Enrique’s embrace.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Sardar Khan, 41, was sitting in a large tent at Omari camp near the crossing, where people get a return certificate and are fingerprinted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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

As a teenager, she applied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, paid her fee and was fingerprinted for a background check.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

Most states need to send cyclospora specimens to the CDC for genetic fingerprinting because their own public-health laboratories can’t do it, Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

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 ● 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

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