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the tracing of this mountain lion is going to be difficult if the rain washes away all of the tracks
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2025
And its tracing of spatial distributions emerges from spying enormous bubblelike arrangements of galaxies thought to have formed from more primordial templates, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
This includes testing, laboratory work, contact tracing, vaccination efforts and health-care costs, according to Dr. Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist with UTHealth Houston.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
Government officials can use this intelligence to shape their public health response, which could include enhanced monitoring, contact tracing, and the administration of vaccines and preventive medications.
—Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2025
And its tracing of spatial distributions emerges from spying enormous bubblelike arrangements of galaxies thought to have formed from more primordial templates, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
This includes testing, laboratory work, contact tracing, vaccination efforts and health-care costs, according to Dr. Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist with UTHealth Houston.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
Government officials can use this intelligence to shape their public health response, which could include enhanced monitoring, contact tracing, and the administration of vaccines and preventive medications.
—Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Tracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracing. Accessed 17 May. 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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