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[trays] / treɪs /






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Her travel documents will be used to trace contacts and the authorities have urged the public to co-operate with health officials carrying out contact tracing.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Instead of coming from material associated with a star's birth, it may trace matter expelled during the star's death.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

They are also trying to trace 57 other contacts of the Kenyan patient after he travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo, dying in hospital in Nairobi on Monday.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems, Neuman said, adding that “even trace amounts in clear diesel can bring IRS and state penalties outside the waiver window.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Jeremy and Spess wandered around for nearly two hours without finding a trace of Mr. Elives' shop.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

"The results obtained this week revealed traces of AI tags in the metadata of certain documents," Boreal said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Organized chronologically, the collection traces the gallery’s evolution and influence from local artist space to cultural hub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

In particular, traces of boron could absorb neutrons that would otherwise help sustain the reaction, preventing the reactor from reaching criticality.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

UBS traces its history to 1862 and briefly became the world’s second-largest bank by assets when Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation merged to form the modern institution in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It explores her face, traces her chin, her jaw, to her ear, across her cheek.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Of 130 contacts, 128 have been traced and are now in quarantine, it added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

And if household robots ever become commonplace, perhaps a tiny bit of their intelligence could be traced back to their time in my apartment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The breakthrough can be traced to research Messing conducted with Michael Brenner, professor emeritus of neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Binance investigators traced other users linked to Zedcex and Oimakhmadov.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gwydion knelt and quickly traced lines in the earth.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

The difference in tariff rates, along with the extensive red tape involved in tracing U.S.-made components, has led some firms to shift production from North America to Asia, representatives from automakers told the negotiators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Giant magnetofossils mark a key step in tracing how animals evolved basic bacterial magnetoreception into highly-specialized, GPS-like navigation systems," Harrison said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

When I looked for a book tracing its full history, I realized nobody had written one, so I wrote it myself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

I didn’t understand—I was holding the tracing paper steady.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini


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