traces

Example Sentences

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She traces that pride back to the village her family comes from and specifically the women she grew up around.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Although the fossils do not preserve enough detail to identify exact species, the researchers found preserved cells, divisions within cell walls, and traces of organic matter across multiple collection sites.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

The MTS traces its roots back a century to Bell Labs, the iconic research organization that developed technologies such as the transistor, the laser and various programming languages.

From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026

“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

There are traces of him everywhere, but nothing for her to focus on.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern