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[trays] / treɪs /






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To trace the disease further into the past, the scientists also examined DNA recovered from sheep teeth dating to the Bronze Age.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Money trickled back to some Paraguayans hit by a sprawling banking crisis Monday, while their newly appointed president shuffled his cabinet and prosecutors sought international assistance to trace missing funds.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

But, once again, not all of Boeing’s red ink showed up on the income statement, and the costliest surprises trace back to its purchase of Spirit AeroSystems, its longtime fuselage supplier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Police tried to trace the vehicle but lost track of it in San Bernardino County, the East Bay Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

His half-finished house stood by the tamarind tree, the only trace left of the big man from the city who had tried to take over their island.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

“Reading Matters” traces the evolution of our bookish culture, from prehistory to present day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

These materials can preserve traces of an animal's biological history, including evidence of infections present when it died.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Even particles too heavy to be produced in the Large Hadron Collider can potentially leave subtle traces in the rates of these processes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

Stevenson is one of the people Newsom has talked to about the death penalty, and the founder of the Legacy Museum in Alabama, which traces the line from slavery to mass incarceration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

There were traces of engine oil under his nails.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

The company told Delgado that it had traced the material to the laminated foil bags in which some of its ingredients arrive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

The word is often traced back to the acronym AMOG, standing for Alpha Male of the Group, and has been variously associated with bodybuilding forums in the mid-2010s as well as the manosphere and incels.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The tipping point can be traced back to 2022 at least, when Mali detained 49 Ivorian soldiers for six months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

The researchers traced much of this problem to a phenomenon called the AC Stark shift.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

On my side of the hole, there was a crack I usually traced with my fingers while Jay had his turn looking up into the kitchen.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

One important way of stopping Ebola from spreading is contact tracing - finding all those people who had come into contact with an infected person and putting them into isolation.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

The eight-episode season differs from most projects centered on Ali, tracing his coming-of-age, when he was known as Cassius Clay before taking on the name which would define his conversion to Muslim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

But close to $3 billion of the stolen funds still remain in control of the hackers, according to blockchain tracing firms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

By tracing the connections of LC neurons, researchers found that different groups of cells communicate with specific regions of the nervous system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Remembering the warmth and love she had bestowed upon us on the hill, I reached up and caressed the Virgen’s glorious blue garb, tracing the embroidered stars delicately with the tips of my fingers.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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