trace
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Many of the latest breakthrough drugs trace their origins to research efforts that initially looked unprofitable or speculative.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
If the first sponges were soft-bodied and lacked mineral skeletons, many may have disappeared without leaving a trace.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Blank Street’s roots trace back to 2020, when co-founders Freiha and Vinay Menda began selling coffee out of a pale-green coffee cart in the Williamsburg neighborhood of New York City.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
As he admired the innards of a primordial iPhone, Cook found himself surrounded by artifacts that trace the history of Apple from a startup in a garage to the most iconic company in America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
I wondered how long it would take for there to be no trace of the shark.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Vocabulary lists containing trace
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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