trace
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Some investigators trace the younger sibling effect to “situated learning.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Brown-Forman’s deal negotiations with French spirits company Pernod Ricard fell apart earlier this year, and a rift has opened within Brown-Forman family members, who trace their roots to the company’s founder, over its future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Police Scotland had been trying to trace the occupants of the grey Renault Clio involved in the crash.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez trace how the problems that have long buffeted the nation’s smaller schools are now spreading to bigger, richer universities—with midsize private schools such as Syracuse especially feeling the pinch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
But Molly and she took great care not to make themselves the story, to leave as little trace behind as possible.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Another drone was reportedly found weeks later near the airport, also with traces of an explosive substance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The first theory traces back to the same underlying factor that causes the stock market to perform poorly in September: a big uptick in seasonal affective disorder.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Five years after Kabul fell, WSJ Opinion’s new documentary traces the way one decision produced disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yet inside “Always” you can still hear traces of what amounted to a messy workplace dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck’s traces.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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We traced the evolution of preppy from its buttoned-up heritage to its more modern and peppy form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A flash flood in the same region last year was traced to a glacial lake in Tibet that overflowed, highlighting an increasing risk in Asia’s mountainous areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was later traced in the Longniddry area of East Lothian on Friday and taken to hospital as a precaution.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He traced a finger along the book’s cover, where the faded imprint of the author’s name was pressed into the leather, though the gold leaf had long since worn away.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The contemporary grocery aisle is full of labels, QR codes, lot numbers and assurances of transparency; nevertheless, the person pushing the cart is increasingly asked to perform the work of tracing the food backward herself.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, tracing the Universe backward leads to the Big Bang singularity, where density becomes infinite, and the known laws of physics no longer work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Bizarrely, he insists on more contact tracing, as if oblivious to the fact that identified cases are a trivial proportion of the true pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
She had issued numerous appeals for help tracing her father in the years he was missing.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Remembering the warmth and love she had bestowed upon us on the hill, I reached up and caressed the Virgen’s glorious blue garb, tracing the embroidered stars delicately with the tips of my fingers.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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