fingerprint
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He admitted that they didn’t turn over the fingerprint evidence and that it would have been helpful to Brooks’ case, according to the memo.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
A smudged fingerprint on the rear-view mirror has also never been matched.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Each element creates its own distinctive set of lines, much like a fingerprint.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 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
In England, it was already possible to search by fingerprint; a complex system of classification meant that a new fingerprint could be compared to similar fingerprints on file in minutes.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Items belonging to some of the victims were recovered from the car, and Mihai's fingerprints were found on the wine glasses left behind in the men's homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
The steps at the e-gates: passport scan, photo, fingerprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
Once the frame was found, he knelt down beside it, holding it with a white handkerchief to protect it from his own fingerprints.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
An agent there said I must have been fingerprinted at the airport.
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 be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025
This is a yearly process mandated by the Indian government where Rohingya refugees are photographed and fingerprinted.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
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
This technique—the use of fingerprinting to identify a person—was brand-new.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
