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fingerprint

[fing-ger-print] / ˈfɪŋ gərˌprɪnt /
NOUN
mark on finger
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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

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

Researchers found that those with endometriosis had a distinct hormone fingerprint, including high levels of some androgens.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Like, I can see someone’s been pointing at it, there’s a nice fingerprint mark.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 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

Greek officials contacted Interpol and American authorities were able to identify her fingerprints.

From BBC Aug. 9, 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

“His fingerprints are everywhere in this industry. His impact extends far beyond the performances we see on screen — it’s woven into the very fabric of Hollywood.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

These signals act like molecular fingerprints, allowing researchers to determine the chemical structure of the material.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

He likes them folded properly if they are newspapers, and no food or fingerprints on the magazines, so I don’t read them much.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

I wasn’t fingerprinted the next day at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station ahead of a Eurostar train to London, either.

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

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

This time, 5,000 men were fingerprinted in the space of a month - and Headley was caught.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

Our right to be in England had to be double and triple confirmed, with sheaves of paperwork and fingerprinted identification cards in addition to the new kind of passports we’d been issued.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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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