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fingerprint

[fing-ger-print] / ˈfɪŋ gərˌprɪnt /
NOUN
mark on finger
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Metals mixed into the ink, whether intentionally or accidentally, could make that chemical fingerprint even more useful.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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

Roberts sent the envelope that contained the threatening letter for forensic analysis, and a fingerprint returned a match to White, according to the criminal complaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The treatment works by taking a sample of the patient's tumor and identifying its unique mutational signature, or "fingerprint," then using mRNA technology to fight it.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

How did he achieve such sheer shade without so much as a pause or a fingerprint?

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Travelers can enroll online with proper documents and set up an in person appointment to take fingerprints and a photo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Turtle is less hopeful about finding fingerprints of life on Titan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

To investigate whether these antibody fingerprints could signal vaccine readiness, the team measured immune responses to 185 antigens.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

They rarely attended training academies or steeped themselves in the emerging scientific methods of detection, such as the analysis of fingerprints and blood patterns.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

When she had registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon filing her green card application, Luma had been fingerprinted; her fingers were placed on an ink pad and carefully rolled over the card beneath.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

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

Chemical fingerprinting indicates that microbial sources, including wetlands, inland waters, reservoirs, and agriculture, were responsible for most of the observed changes.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 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

Bratton retrofitted a city bus and turned it into a rolling station house, with its own fax machines, phones, holding pen, and fingerprinting facilities.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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