fingerprint
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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
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
The molecules of DNA pass through a nanopore - a tiny hole - which reveals the tumour's unique genomic fingerprint.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
But the fingerprint on the glass pane could still be useful.
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
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
It felt wrong, getting fingerprints on this brand-new MacBook screen on purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
His team found that by December last year, nearly 90% had AI fingerprints on them.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
My mother had trouble persuading me to carry one because I was a lady, but I now realized that a handkerchief was an invaluable tool for a counterspy—to erase fingerprints, and so forth.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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 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 time, 5,000 men were fingerprinted in the space of a month - and Headley was caught.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
But it was the men who gave her the final label, who fingerprinted her for all time.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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
Portugal and Italy do not plan on exempting British nationals from Europe's new fingerprinting and facial scanning checks, the European Commission has confirmed.
From BBC ● May 7, 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
Locard believed in a brand-new method of identification: fingerprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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