trace
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NHS Tayside said it is working with Police Scotland to trace a missing patient, and members of the public are urged not to approach him.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“If you trace the AI supply chain upstream, from models to chips to the machines that manufacture them, each layer becomes increasingly critical and constrained,” Stephanie Zhan, a partner at Sequoia, said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
To trace this history, the team carried out a broad comparison of sperm structures across arthropods using decades of previously published research.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Looking back now, I can trace so much of my own career back to that realization.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
His eyes held a trace of that heartbreak, as if he were seeing all that suffering for the first time.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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“Ownership mentality is paramount for me,” she added, explaining that she traces that approach to a childhood watching her parents, immigrants from Taiwan, build a bricks-and-mortar travel agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The chief vet of Kenya's Wildlife Service, Dr Isaac Lekolool, told us that they had found traces of cyanide in samples taken from the elephants' stomachs.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Two previously unknown human relatives left traces of their DNA in people alive today, adding another layer to the genetic legacy already inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Root’s complexion lost any final traces of pallor.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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"The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Many of my projects can be traced back to this space,” he told me, citing the several cups of coffee he’s shared there with collaborators and curators from spaces like Compton Museum and Color Compton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Each instrument is also now laser tagged so it can be traced back to Platts & Nisbett, regardless of what hospital it ends up in.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The resulting maps traced gas motion deep within the black hole's sphere of influence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
When they discovered these errors, the saboteurs were angry that Kappe didn't seem worried about how easily the bills could be traced back to them.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
She had issued numerous appeals for help tracing her father in the years he was missing.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
After a few blocks on Reseda, Papas turned back into the neighborhood centered around Etiwanda and started tracing loops across the blocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Reaching it required tracing a river for 20 kilometers, followed by two days of steep uphill hiking.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
My research on how these movements evolve online and intersect with political activists and extremist networks was directly relevant to tracing how COVID-origin claims moved from fringe communities into mainstream political discourse.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
She got ready for bed and took it with her, tracing her fingers over the black ink, worries making them wobbly.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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