- present tense form of trace (3rd person singular).
traces
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Asked about music, the artist somewhat reluctantly traces his affinity back to childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"The results obtained this week revealed traces of AI tags in the metadata of certain documents," Boreal said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Your husband was a French count, and you came from an aristocratic European family that traces back to the Kings of Prussia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The ship's wooden structure has not survived, but the ceramic storage pots it was carrying were lying on the sea floor and, remarkably, some still contain traces of what they held inside.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
As the sun came up each morning, they’d clear away all traces of their campsite and set off again, deeper into the mountains.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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