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Recent Examples of tracer
If the rhythmic releases of norepinephrine correlate with the arrival of a larger tracer at a sensor on the brain’s surface, that would be a fascinating finding.
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Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
China deployed 9,000 contact tracers to contain the outbreak among Wuhan’s 11 million people.
—Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2020
Proulx questioned whether the tracer dye moved via an active force at all.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Depositphotos Muscle protein synthesis (MPS) directly measures muscle growth using stable isotope tracers.
—New Atlas, 8 Mar. 2025
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Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
China deployed 9,000 contact tracers to contain the outbreak among Wuhan’s 11 million people.
—Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2020
Proulx questioned whether the tracer dye moved via an active force at all.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Depositphotos Muscle protein synthesis (MPS) directly measures muscle growth using stable isotope tracers.
—New Atlas, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracer
Noun
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Spiny lobster tails make their way north from Marathon’s Key’s Fisheries.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
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Flying by the active asteroid could show exactly what processes are creating the dusty tails streaming from the object and might reveal possibilities scientists haven’t even considered, Kareta said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Last week, prosecutors called their final witness, the Chicago police detective who was the lead investigator in the case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives.—
Hamilton Cain,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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“Tracer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracer. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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