trace
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Paraguayan prosecutors said they had sought help from the United States, Luxembourg and Argentina to trace and recover assets linked to the collapsed bank.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
"These new satellites will give us new opportunities to test models of galaxy formation, trace the assembly history of the Milky Way, and investigate the nature of dark matter."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Wasabi Wallet allows for users to move funds between bitcoin wallets without leaving a clear trace, facilitated by a “coordinator.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
Police tried to trace the vehicle but lost track of it in San Bernardino County, the East Bay Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Gabi’s managed to trace her family back five generations and to seven different countries!
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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This makes it impossible to reliably separate any original DNA that might have been associated with the fabric from the many genetic traces deposited afterward.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
El Pollo Loco traces its history to the 1970s in Guasave,Mexico, where salesman Pancho Ochoa started it with his family’s citrus-marinated chicken recipe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Understanding how fragile biological structures can survive for millions of years could also help scientists identify possible traces of ancient life in other extreme environments, including those beyond Earth.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Stevenson is one of the people Newsom has talked to about the death penalty, and the founder of the Legacy Museum in Alabama, which traces the line from slavery to mass incarceration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
He traces the scrolled top of the instrument with his finger.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Much of that progress can be traced to the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement adopted in 1987 to phase out substances responsible for damaging the ozone layer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
The agency said the substance involved had been identified as home heating oil, or kerosene, and that the source had been traced to a nearby tank.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
The researchers traced much of this problem to a phenomenon called the AC Stark shift.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nigeria has widened a hunt for potential Ebola cases, with an additional nine contacts traced, health authorities said Sunday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Not just about Watergate, but about other jobs that could be traced back to the White House—most dangerously, the Ellsberg break-in.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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The eight-episode season differs from most projects centered on Ali, tracing his coming-of-age, when he was known as Cassius Clay before taking on the name which would define his conversion to Muslim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
The company’s cyber investigators began to work with their own partners that specialize in tracing cryptocurrency—TRM Labs, Chainalysis and Elliptic—to compile a list of digital addresses containing the pilfered funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
By tracing the genetic origins of these clones and comparing patterns of gene activity, the researchers connected differences in DNA copy numbers with the types of cells present in each tumor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
"So our focus is on the contact tracing and ensuring that we know exactly where those contacts are."
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving Estella’s parentage, I cannot say.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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