tracing

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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

In 1969, British economist Mark Blaug published a book called The Causes of Graduate Unemployment in India, tracing a gap between education and jobs that had been evident since the 1950s.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

By comparing how these gene clusters are arranged across hundreds of plant genomes and tracing their patterns from ancestral species to modern plants, they were able to detect conserved elements that earlier methods had missed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Half his face is dipped in moonlight, tracing along the sharp cut of his jaw, the easy bend in his broad shoulders.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray