traces

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The word “credit” traces back to the Latin root for “to believe.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

On 15 May 2024, the company confirmed traces of cryptosporidium had been found in the supply network and issued a boil water notice to about 17,000 homes and businesses in and around Brixham.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

As Mr. Mintzker traces the origins and purposes behind that slanderous 1602 pamphlet, he encounters the work of Jacob Schudt, a German theologian and devout Lutheran who around 1714 began publishing his four-volume “Jewish Memorabilia.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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

A touch of a spurred heel made his horse first start and rear, and then bound away; the dog rushed in his traces; all three vanished,

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë