traces

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With “Where the Music Had to Go,” Windolf carefully traces the contours of a revolution that transformed popular music into art.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

His native Hamburg is less than 150 miles away and his mother traces her lineage on Amrum back nine generations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

What few realize is that this pattern traces to just one of the four years of the U.S. presidential term — and it includes the next 12 months.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Police found no drug paraphernalia, no traces of heroin in room 112, and nothing among Charmain's belongings.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Fiercely, she scrubbed out her alpana design until no traces of the rice powder remained on the threshold.

From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins