fingerprint
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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
Because it survives for only a short time, unusually large amounts of formaldehyde can act as a chemical fingerprint showing that methane destruction is actively taking place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The only way to match a fingerprint was to get lucky—and since there were almost a million entries in Bertillon’s files, a detective would have to get really lucky.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
It even features traces of fingerprints and brush hairs are still visible.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
“I mean, it’s unbelievable how much of this is done with the pads of his fingers. And all of his fingerprints and thumbprints are crystal clear in the paint.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
They then analyzed the age "fingerprints" of those grains and compared them with geological samples from possible source locations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Only a few years before, a British murder case had been solved on the basis of nothing but fingerprints.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
I wasn’t fingerprinted at the booth and still don’t understand why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sardar Khan, 41, was sitting in a large tent at Omari camp near the crossing, where people get a return certificate and are fingerprinted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Garfield had yet to be arrested, but Jodie had been searched, fingerprinted, placed in a cell and, after interview, was released on bail.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 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
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
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
You can still be tracked through cookies, browser fingerprinting, account logins and other methods.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
Locard believed in a brand-new method of identification: fingerprinting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
