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trace

[treys] / treɪs /






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Some investigators trace the younger sibling effect to “situated learning.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Visits to both buildings with listed addresses for Freight Care revealed no trace of the company’s office.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Police Scotland had been trying to trace the occupants of the grey Renault Clio involved in the crash.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez trace how the problems that have long buffeted the nation’s smaller schools are now spreading to bigger, richer universities—with midsize private schools such as Syracuse especially feeling the pinch.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

But after nearly three hours of work he hadn't found the slightest trace of the book.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The first theory traces back to the same underlying factor that causes the stock market to perform poorly in September: a big uptick in seasonal affective disorder.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Archaeological investigations have identified surviving traces of the former camp complex, but Austria's Federal Monuments Office concluded that the remains were "not sufficient" for monument protection.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Among the most common genetic traces in Neanderthal tartar were remains from Diptera, the insect group that includes flies and mosquitoes.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The hallway lined with mismatched doors and covered in fallen snow bears traces of what could be footprints, or might only be shadows.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

We traced the evolution of preppy from its buttoned-up heritage to its more modern and peppy form.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The researchers traced the problem back to inflammation.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

They traced the sound back to the cistern and climbed up about seven feet to its small opening.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

A flash flood in the same region last year was traced to a glacial lake in Tibet that overflowed, highlighting an increasing risk in Asia’s mountainous areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

I traced the backbone with my finger and decided to start with the shark’s skeleton.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“There was about seven decades of work that had to happen,” he said, tracing the origins to the late 1940s and early 1950s and studies on the statistics of language.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

The contemporary grocery aisle is full of labels, QR codes, lot numbers and assurances of transparency; nevertheless, the person pushing the cart is increasingly asked to perform the work of tracing the food backward herself.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, tracing the Universe backward leads to the Big Bang singularity, where density becomes infinite, and the known laws of physics no longer work.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Bizarrely, he insists on more contact tracing, as if oblivious to the fact that identified cases are a trivial proportion of the true pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Doesn’t mean I don’t find myself tracing the letters of Arthur’s name on the magnet I bought myself to match the one he has with my name.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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