traces

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Capybaras’ internet fame traces back at least to 2007, when Caplin Rous, a 6-week-old capybara, licked a camera.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

Places like these become repositories of memory, carrying traces of different eras inside them.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

He traces how women’s-rights advocates, labor reformers and other movements seized the language of 1776 to press their own demands, bending its promises toward new ends.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

If those black holes travel through dense clouds of dark matter before colliding, the resulting gravitational waves could carry subtle traces of that interaction.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck’s traces.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London