tracing

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By tracing its path backward over billions of years, they determined that the star originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud before eventually being pulled into the Milky Way.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Browder also spent years tracing the proceeds of the scheme, with the help of investigative journalists at Barron’s and other publications.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

“Logic and neural networks are two threads tracing their way back through time, each corresponding to a different way of thinking about the mind,” Mr. Griffiths writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

The show examines the environmental and human cost of the atomic era through an artistic lens, tracing present day nuclear risk back to its Cold War roots.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

But no: There it is, inadvertently circled by the tracing I'd made.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse