Examples of tracing in a Sentence
the tracing of this mountain lion is going to be difficult if the rain washes away all of the tracks
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The final nurse, plain face and plain name, studies a tracing of my contractions and tells me when to bear down, when to ease up.
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Erica Stern
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
And that backward tracing can help reveal which comet likely shed the meteoroid material in the first place.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2025
The identification of the new strain came after state tracing and initial testing under the USDA's National Milk Testing Strategy, which came out of a December order in order to help monitor the spread of bird flu in dairy cows.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
In recent decades, technological advances have transformed the field of archeology, allowing for the sequencing of ancient DNA and the tracing of long-ago migrations.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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Erica Stern
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
And that backward tracing can help reveal which comet likely shed the meteoroid material in the first place.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2025
The identification of the new strain came after state tracing and initial testing under the USDA's National Milk Testing Strategy, which came out of a December order in order to help monitor the spread of bird flu in dairy cows.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
In recent decades, technological advances have transformed the field of archeology, allowing for the sequencing of ancient DNA and the tracing of long-ago migrations.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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“Tracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracing. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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tracing
noun
trac·ing
ˈtrā-siŋ 
: a graphic record made by an instrument (as an electrocardiograph) that registers some movement
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