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It is still gathering people, references, conversations and the occasional unexpected encounter, allowing each to leave some small trace behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Agents have learned to painstakingly trace digital currencies, hop by hop, across blockchains—the decentralized ledgers stored on computers around the world that provide a public record of transactions between digital wallets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso had from the last day of her father's life was his mangled firefighter helmet.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

On the grounds that litigation is "reasonably anticipated," the letter from Musk's lawyer orders the filmmakers to preserve every trace of the project, including footage, interview transcripts, research files and internal communications.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

No cook-fires shone beyond the trees, and there was no trace of the electric lights Grandmother had described.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

As adults, we begin to recognize them for what they are: traces of lives lived before us, of losses and experiences that continue to echo across generations.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

“East of the River” traces the page’s origins, collaging screenshots of the young account when it had just 61 posts and 900 followers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

They were among the 88 temples of the Henro pilgrimage route that traces back 1,200 years and meanders roughly 750 miles around Japan’s fourth-largest island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

François unfastened Sol-leks’s traces and put him back in his old place.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

The supply at the eateries was traced back to a Taylor Farms facility in Central Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Anthropic traced a fake news operation to LKM Company, a French advertising agency.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

But the betrayal of first responders can be traced before the 2001 second attack on the Twin Towers.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The FBI traced Bayoumi to Birmingham, UK, where he had moved with his family before 9/11.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He traced his finger along the screen, stopping once again at Snow White Project.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The book is particularly good at tracing the incremental shifts in Wilde’s posthumous reputation, culminating in the serious scholarly attention of the post-1945 era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It has operated as a low-cost carrier for two decades, tracing its origins back to a charter company called Travel Service.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

“There was about seven decades of work that had to happen,” he said, tracing the origins to the late 1940s and early 1950s and studies on the statistics of language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

By tracing the origins of enzymes during the earliest split between bacteria and archaea, the researchers found evidence that free-living cells may have originated independently twice.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

As he ran, he could feel the sweat tracing a line down his back, every single drop representing the work he’d been putting in since that very first win years ago.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss