fingerprint
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He said he accessed her phone the same way she had accessed his, by using his fingerprint.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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
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 scientist on board tells us that the fluke, or tail, of a whale is like a person’s fingerprint.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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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
Bennu, Ryugu, and CI meteorites share strikingly similar isotopic fingerprints, suggesting that their original materials came from the same reservoir of ancient cosmic dust.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
It provided public acknowledgment that she had contributed to a worthy line of inquiry and inked her fingerprints onto findings that would be circulated widely among the aeronautical community.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Seven mobile phones and a laptop were seized, and Greer was brought into a police station to be fingerprinted and have his DNA taken.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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
He was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, and released on bond, wearing a broad smile as he stepped out of the courthouse.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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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
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
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
VPNs mask your IP address and encrypt your traffic, but websites still can collect data on you through cookies, browser fingerprinting and account logins.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
It was a sort of fingerprinting before fingerprinting; it was more like bodyprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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