- present participle of trace.
tracing
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The Scottish government said four of those cases were detected outside of the zone by tracing animal movements from the affected farms.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Robin Wigglesworth, global finance correspondent for the Financial Times, found that fact, and it sent him looking for a book tracing how bonds built the modern financial system.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
These include rapid diagnosis, isolating infected patients, tracing people who may have been exposed, strengthening infection control, and providing supportive medical care.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The International Community for the Red Cross, the primary international rights group involved in tracking down missing persons in the enclave, says it is dealing with roughly 5,000 to 6,000 open tracing requests in Gaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
I inhale deeply, tracing the hard lines of his jaw with the tips of my fingers, pondering the winding paths that life presents—ends leading to beginnings and back again.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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An army of people would spend a week or two searching for tiger tracks and making tracings or plaster casts of the left hind foot.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The platform’s inputs are “imaging of any type—ECG, heart tracings, echocardiograms, blood tests, labs, genetic tests and, importantly, the electronic health record,” Dr. Mansi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
I could ignore my past struggles, pretend they no longer matter, but indelible tracings remain.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Under the glass surface on his desk, Manger keeps sketched tracings of the names of officers who died in the line of duty under his command.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2019
A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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