traces

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In the memoir, Ms. Dunham traces the struggles of her adult life—fame, illness, addiction—with touching emphasis on the early tremulous excitements of becoming well-known: the affirmation, the freebies, the invitations to glittering events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Tantalizing traces of ancient Martian life may have been found.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

Now events come and stay,” says Omar Nokta, managing director and equity analyst at Clarksons Securities, an investment bank to the shipping industry that traces its roots back more than 150 years.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander