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

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

Ivy crushed her pillow against her chest, tracing her finger over one corner of her notebook.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake