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trace

[treys] / treɪs /






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I felt like the cop who keeps getting hung up on before I could trace the crook’s phone call.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

"Being able to trace signals back to their source is important because a positive blood test needs to be followed by imaging or other diagnostic procedures directed at the right organ," said Li.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

To trace the breadcrumbs of this tragedy, readers need critical context.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

“If you trace the AI supply chain upstream, from models to chips to the machines that manufacture them, each layer becomes increasingly critical and constrained,” Stephanie Zhan, a partner at Sequoia, said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I’d watched it dissolve like sugar in water, no trace.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

It’s well-known that all of the stock market’s net gain traces to a very small number of days.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

My perverse love for lip stuff traces back to when I was 4 and first tried on my grandmother’s Clinique lipstick in Raspberry Glace.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Farther above, at altitudes of several hundred kilometers, traces of Earth's upper atmosphere can still exert enough drag to slow satellites.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Kicking over the traces of domesticity, Aurore left her family for the capital in 1831 and quickly immersed herself in Paris’s bustling literary scene.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The traces of the bog were removed from it; the creases left by the wet smoothed out: it was quite decent.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The Food and Drug administration traced an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasite-born intestinal disease, to contaminated lettuce grown in Mexico by Salinas-based Taylor Fresh Foods that made its way to Taco Bell.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Ipswich's previous recruitment model can be traced back to their four seasons in League One.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The ultimate answer, he writes, can be traced back to the idea of “exceptionalism,” be it racial, national or any other variety.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

He stared at the book with reverence, and as his eyes traced the handwritten letters, he realized it was his favorite story: “Sinchi and the Cliffs of Nowhere.”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

"These incidents have disrupted surveillance, case investigation, contact tracing, treatment and community engagements showing how attacks can undermine not only health services, but also the capacity to detect and contain outbreaks," said Musani.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Reaching it required tracing a river for 20 kilometers, followed by two days of steep uphill hiking.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

After a few blocks on Reseda, Papas turned back into the neighborhood centered around Etiwanda and started tracing loops across the blocks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Comparatively, DR Congo has had a harder time with surveillance and contact tracing.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

He pointed, clicked a button, and several laser beams shot from the device, tracing over the camera.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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