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  • present participle of trace.
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tracing

[trey-sing] / ˈtreɪ sɪŋ /
















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"These incidents have disrupted surveillance, case investigation, contact tracing, treatment and community engagements showing how attacks can undermine not only health services, but also the capacity to detect and contain outbreaks," said Musani.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

By tracing the origins of enzymes during the earliest split between bacteria and archaea, the researchers found evidence that free-living cells may have originated independently twice.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

After a few blocks on Reseda, Papas turned back into the neighborhood centered around Etiwanda and started tracing loops across the blocks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

He said the cyber cell was tracing those sharing inflammatory videos and continuously monitoring social media for more such content.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Marco turns his attention back to his sketch, tracing the lines of the tree with his fingertips.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Using radiocarbon tracings, the archaeologists have dated the grave to the approximate time of the construction of Stonehenge, between 3005 and 2890 B.C.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2022

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




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