fingertip search

noun

1. a detailed search made by passing the fingers over the scene of a crime or incident

Example Sentences

"We would like assurance that the authorities in the Virgin Islands are doing everything possible to find her and that the investigation into our beautiful and cherished daughter’s disappearance includes a comprehensive fingertip search of the boat," the family said in a statement.

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A fingertip search of key areas was carried out early this year, including the whole of the Darwin archive, which comprises 189 archive boxes, but this failed to locate the notebooks.

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Now the Hafod-Morfa works is undergoing a fingertip search of the site, to uncover some of its lesser-known gems.

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We took our title from an entry in the log book of one of the police divers called in to make a fingertip search of the bottom of the lake beside the farm where Mary went missing.

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This subtle shift was enough for police to launch the constabulary's largest ever fingertip search, which involved 190 officers from 12 other forces.

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