traces

Example Sentences

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A contributing factor traces to something vital for early career workers: mentorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Ease with peer-to-peer transactions, he added, likely traces back to having parents who’ve used these tools for most of their financial lives.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

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

Ruthless as a gun dog, he picked up with rapid and unflagging instinct the traces of everything in the world I was most insecure about, all the things I was in most agony to hide.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt