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
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
An EEG captures patterns of electrical activity and oscillations across brain networks, creating what can be thought of as an electrical fingerprint of the brain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Researchers found that those with endometriosis had a distinct hormone fingerprint, including high levels of some androgens.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
I heard the police had brought in a psychic, a fingerprint expert, a special team of bloodhounds trained at Dannemora.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
People aged six and above would have their biometric data collected, with information - such as fingerprints - stored on the Eurodac database.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
There are even reports of some older travelers’ fingerprints not being recognized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
These small folders containing photograph and fingerprints had to be produced on demand.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
I wasn’t fingerprinted at the booth and still don’t understand why.
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
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 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
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
Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
As a high-schooler Busby performed locally; a music career beckoned, but based on his academic performance an FBI recruiter offered him a position in the bureau’s fingerprinting lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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
Locard believed in a brand-new method of identification: fingerprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
