tracing

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“We used tracing paper and pieced it together,” Hannah says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

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

He pointed, clicked a button, and several laser beams shot from the device, tracing over the camera.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles