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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

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

I hold up the photo and put my finger on the glass, leaving my fingerprint in a smudge.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

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 system relies on facial recognition and fingerprints instead of the age-old practice of getting your passport stamped at a booth.

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

"They do it so that their fingerprints aren't directly on it," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

If the Mona Lisa had been stolen in England, where fingerprints were searchable, Perugia would have been arrested almost immediately.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

The King's brother has been arrested, taken from his home on the King's estate at Sandringham, photographed and fingerprinted.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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 Zach stepped toward us, I wondered if he’d been handcuffed, fingerprinted, photographed, pushed around.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

Mahmood said there is "always concern" when a new technology is adopted, adding this previously applied to the use of fingerprinting and DNA samples.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

The study, titled 'Detrital zircon-apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge's megaliths', was published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026

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