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fingerprint

noun as in mark on finger

Strong matches

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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.

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The piano-black plastic material on the console and around door switches might actually be haunted; fingerprints appear mysteriously overnight.

The system uses machine learning to analyze millions of immune-cell receptors—the molecular fingerprints left as the body responds to threats—and detect patterns linked to autoimmune activity.

"They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history. If we can understand why they exist, we can understand how our planet formed and why it became habitable."

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By applying machine learning, the team trained computer models to recognize faint molecular fingerprints left by living organisms long after the original biomolecules were destroyed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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