trace
Example Sentences
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Proposition 65 requires businesses to place warnings on products—including many toys, clothing items and electronics—if they contain trace amounts of chemicals that the state has deemed potentially carcinogenic.
Yet the glass fiber filters used to trap airborne particles also preserved traces of DNA from pollen, spores, and other microscopic biological material.
From Science Daily
Police Scotland said inquires to trace the sole occupant of the boat were ongoing.
From BBC
Their findings, published in New Phytologist, trace the plant's evolutionary history, reveal how its internal structures have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle, and open new doors for future research into this unusual lineage.
From Science Daily
Many cooking problems can be traced not to a lack of skill, but to impatience.
From Salon
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