trace
Example Sentences
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Archival photos, maps and short films trace the Chinese-Canadian experience, starting in the late-1880s when a wave of immigrants arrived to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Investigators for the rights commission traced that car to a man in Kuala Lumpur who worked for the Special Branch.
From BBC
Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral organisms and occupies a distinct position on a single, complex, prolifically branching, unfathomably extensive and largely invisible tree of life.
Solar panels are mostly recyclable, made of glass, aluminium, silver, and polymers - but trace toxic metals like lead and cadmium can pollute soil and water if mishandled.
From BBC
Police detained 115 suspects but efforts are ongoing to trace a further 22, an official statement read.
From BBC
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