trace
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One possible explanation may trace back to an algorithm overhaul Instagram completed just a year ago, around the time Japan’s energy-generating footsteps started gaining more virtual traction.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sources say this 2002 "adverse trace" would "absolutely" have been discoverable on Greer's record.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
FedEx has already received about $800 million in refunds, but has booked $749 million as liabilities owed back to customers whose tariff payments it can trace.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Lodge’s roughly 150 family members vary in how early their memories trace back to the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Maybe I can trace the steps of whoever hid that treasure.”
From "Mystery Map (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #3)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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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
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
Yet inside “Always” you can still hear traces of what amounted to a messy workplace dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Preliminary laboratory tests have found traces of cyanide in samples of the crops taken from the elephants' stomachs.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
However, on May 18, 1980, scientists saw devastation that went far beyond the historical traces.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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The chicks have had small identification rings placed round their legs so that they can be traced when they are spotted again.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In adult brains, the researchers detected changes in myelination that could be traced to thicker myelin sheaths, particularly around thin axons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Food and Drug administration traced an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasite-born intestinal disease, to contaminated lettuce grown in Mexico by Salinas-based Taylor Fresh Foods that made its way to Taco Bell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some of the urchin phenomenon can be traced to social media, of course, and the way it can turn a product into a viral craze via TikTok, Instagram and the like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
After scrubbing away most of the grime, she put the rag over one finger, held it in place with the other hand, and traced the outlines of the paintings.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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“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
"These incidents have disrupted surveillance, case investigation, contact tracing, treatment and community engagements showing how attacks can undermine not only health services, but also the capacity to detect and contain outbreaks," said Musani.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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
Reaching it required tracing a river for 20 kilometers, followed by two days of steep uphill hiking.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
ATA wings still tracing a pale outline on the sunken wreck of the breastbone.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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