trace
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ProPublica interviewed more than two dozen national security specialists across party lines to trace Gorka’s path to one of the most sensitive jobs in government.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
Mike Priday, 89, said he was thankful to Lomax for making the effort to trace the family.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The weakening of America’s Protestant work ethic, to use a contested but irreplaceable phrase, is a complicated story, but you could trace its beginnings to the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
This approach allowed them to trace the ecological history of Doggerland from about 16,000 years ago until it disappeared beneath the sea.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
I trace the writing with my fingers, thinking that I could have written the very same thing about Gram.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Vocabulary lists containing trace
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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