- present participle of trace.
tracing
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The Scottish government said four of those cases were detected outside of the zone by tracing animal movements from the affected farms.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Robin Wigglesworth, global finance correspondent for the Financial Times, found that fact, and it sent him looking for a book tracing how bonds built the modern financial system.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Gammons is tracing ERA trends across five decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"The 1851 memoir, by contrast, was a spiritual redemption story, with Byfield tracing his progress from rebellious sinner to devout and repentant Christian."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Mia ran a finger along one photograph, tracing the curve of a rusted bridge.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
An army of people would spend a week or two searching for tiger tracks and making tracings or plaster casts of the left hind foot.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The platform’s inputs are “imaging of any type—ECG, heart tracings, echocardiograms, blood tests, labs, genetic tests and, importantly, the electronic health record,” Dr. Mansi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
I could ignore my past struggles, pretend they no longer matter, but indelible tracings remain.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Under the glass surface on his desk, Manger keeps sketched tracings of the names of officers who died in the line of duty under his command.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2019
She’d been younger than Jojo at the time, but Stella remembered the furtive whispers and the tracings of fear on the grown-ups around her when it had happened.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
