How to Use forensic in a Sentence

forensic

1 of 2 adjective
  • Eleven days later, the detective got a visit from the head of the forensic lab.
    Paul Larosa, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • One of the women was assigned to the forensic medical team.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Photos from the scene showed forensic units examining the halls of the AK Plaza, where the stabbings took place.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • That profile was then sent to the forensic genealogy team.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The six remains fit the profile of what the forensic scientists were looking for, even though they have not been confirmed as victims.
    Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The murders were soon linked by forensic evidence, the same unknown man leaving sperm samples on Brosso and Bernas and items of clothing at the scene.
    Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Among other quarrels with the way the case was tried, the use of blockchain forensic evidence will form part of the basis for Sterlingov’s appeal.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But the forensic evidence didn’t link Padilla-Padilla to the murder — and a gun was never recovered, Achille states in the memo.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • According to a report by Newsweek, forensic experts found that 40 of the blows were made while Betty's heart was still beating.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The remains were tied to the missing call center workers by forensic specialists.
    Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2023
  • The clinic is also open to social work and forensic psychology students who plan to work in the legal field.
    Karen Zraick, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • The two dead will be turned over to U.S. authorities following forensic work at the Matamoros morgue in the coming hours, the governor said.
    Alfredo Peña, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But there are other concerns for patients who would be transferred to the forensic hospital.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • At the hospital in Whittier, Sanchez received a forensic exam and told a nurse what had happened.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Authorities recovered the skull and sent it to the coroner's office for a forensic exam.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The special prosecutors have since sent the gun for further forensic testing.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The firm then turned to Antrim County, Michigan, where a judge had ruled that the Trump legal team could make forensic images of vote-counting tabulators.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
  • That vehicle was tracked to a condo complex in the 8600 block of Wilshire Boulevard, where one of the apartments was searched in March for forensic evidence connected to the shooting.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Her case is believed to be the first in the country where forensic genealogy was used to identify human remains.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • Now, based on her remains, forensic artist Hew Morrison has created a model of her face.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • They’ve been used for forensic purposes since the late 1890s, starting in Calcutta, India.
    Partha Banerjee, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The cause of death for each of the dead will most likely be determined by state forensic pathologists or death investigators.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 June 2023
  • Advertisement Mora said the death toll may rise further as five forensic teams rushed to identify the victims.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • Weiss’ body was identified in a process by the medical personnel and institute of forensic medicine and the Israel Police.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The remains of the man shot inside the garage are thought to still be in Alicante province under the supervision of forensic examiners.
    Victoria Butenko, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Wathen was joined by the former chief forensic psychologist for the state and former U.S. attorney.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The evidence found will be sent for forensic analysis to help with the investigation.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 15 May 2023
  • The robbers left the vault floor covered with shards of broken glass and blanketed it with powder to throw forensic investigators off their scent.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • The remains found in a 40-meter deep ravine will still need to undergo forensic tests to officially identify the bodies.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 3 June 2023
  • Many of the artifacts found in the necropolis will be displayed at a local museum, and experts will conduct forensic testing to learn more about the skeletons.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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forensic

2 of 2 noun
  • In that trial, Duke challenged the forensics that tied the revolver to the murder.
    al, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Learn more about the science behind this study and see inside the wildlife forensics lab in the video above.
    National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The weapons at the scene were found and will undergo forensics testing.
    Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • The forensics center would not disclose how and when Baumel died.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
  • The new method could beef up the field of hair forensics, which has a checkered history.
    Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The body has been taken to the state forensics lab for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Lyu has been in media forensics for two decades and has seen this before.
    Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Meredith has led forensics classes through the world of scent, focusing on the science of the art form.
    Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The motivation of the bad actor doesn’t emerge just from code forensics.
    Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In the end, the effort to cast doubt over the reliability of blockchain forensics bore no fruit for the defense.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The summer camp began with a class on Wednesday to walk the students through forensics basics.
    Serena Lin, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2023
  • The film is very good at laying out the forensics of the case, but Triet is after something larger.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Police cordoned off the area until deep into the night as forensics experts combed the street for clues.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • And this video finally emerged after a year of forensics that required the FBI to lend a helping hand.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Long’s colleagues in the forensics unit were curious about just what the procedure would do to his DNA.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Police have been delayed in part due to a backlog inside their forensics lab.
    Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 21 Sep. 2023
  • That's what happens to forensics expert Becca (Maite Perroni) when she's called to the crime scene on Triptych.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The old forensics unit, located at the state hospital in Whitfield, had barely a dozen beds.
    Sarah Smith, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Kathleen Miller was a forensics photographer for the FBI.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Police have cleared the scene after portions of the trail were closed Sunday for forensics teams to investigate the area where the woman’s body was found.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Carol said her husband, who was a lector at St. Jerome for nearly 50 years, trained her to be a forensics and debate judge.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The sheriff's office said phone forensics and information from the public helped lead to the arrests.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The firm took a chance on Anthony Zuiker, a tram driver at a Las Vegas hotel who had an idea to write a show about crime-scene forensics.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The girls’ jewelry, purses and money were not missing and state forensics experts at the time said neither girl had been raped.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 July 2023
  • GrayKey is a forensics tool used by law enforcement to access locked and encrypted iPhones.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The police can collect evidence and use forensics to try to solve crimes, but tips from the public often play a vital role, Williams said.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Rasmussen’s daughter surfaced a couple of years ago, and allowed forensics officials to tie him to one of the victims in Bear Brook.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 9 June 2019
  • Arellano told the Sentinel on Tuesday, adding that the forensics exam is very invasive.
    Elaine Ingalls, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • From a digital forensics perspective, this is a huge lead.
    CBS News, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The working group was one of the main outcomes of that sitdown, and it was quickly followed by the U.S. lifting sanctions on a Chinese government forensics laboratory in return for Beijing’s promise to clamp down on the fentanyl trade.
    Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024

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