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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

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object, providing new insights into the composition of comet 3I/ATLAS as it traveled away from the Sun.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

The man next to Papa Acevedo had a black fingerprint smudged over his face.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

Product ecologist at Nature Metrics, Dr George Muscatt, said the eDNA was "tiny traces or fingerprints of DNA that species in that ecosystem have left behind".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

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 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

The result shows that astronomers can locate worlds by identifying the molecular fingerprints of their atmospheres instead of depending entirely on traditional coronagraphic imaging.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

A necklace, its square blue sapphires girdled by glittering diamonds coated in dust, except where a few fingerprints allowed the light to strike through.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

An agent there said I must have been fingerprinted at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Seven mobile phones and a laptop were seized, and Greer was brought into a police station to be fingerprinted and have his DNA taken.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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

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

Portugal and Italy do not plan on exempting British nationals from Europe's new fingerprinting and facial scanning checks, the European Commission has confirmed.

From BBC ● May 7, 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