- present participle of trace.
tracing
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Everyone I spoke with described the current process of tracing foodborne illnesses as laborious and slow and hampered by an absence of a unified approach.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Bicentennial Wagon Train made a yearlong journey across the U.S., tracing old covered-wagon trails and arriving in Valley Forge, Pa., on July 4.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
These include contact tracing, clinical assessment and precautionary testing.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
In a bid to boost tracing goods, the EU will make it mandatory from November 1, 2026 to provide reference details about the products.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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
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
Under the glass surface on his desk, Manger keeps sketched tracings of the names of officers who died in the line of duty under his command.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2019
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
