How to Use forensic in a Sentence

forensic

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of forensicnext
  • 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], 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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