trace
Example Sentences
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Despite dive teams combing the river, extensive searches by police and repeated public appeals, no trace of the missing law student has ever been found.
From BBC
They need the “context”—a company’s living, breathing ecosystem with “decision traces,” the history of every decision made, every prospect considered, every process used or discarded.
By adding a grain transport component, the researchers could trace the journeys of icy particles and reconstruct the physical and chemical history of the material that formed Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Io.
From Science Daily
DNA from living sponges and chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate they emerged at least 650 million years ago.
From Science Daily
These chemical fossils are traces of biological molecules once produced by living organisms that were later buried, altered, and locked into sediment for hundreds of millions of years.
From Science Daily
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