without a trace

idiom

: without leaving any signs to show where one went
He disappeared/vanished without a trace.

Examples of without a trace in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Amid the never-ending night, eight men who operate a research station in a remote town vanish without a trace. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024 Stranded in the cold, all 129 men aboard perished, and the wooden ships disappeared without a trace. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024 A day later, Roque, a U.S. citizen, had disappeared without a trace. Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2024 The whole affair seemed destined to melt without a trace. Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024 These datasets mirror the essence of real data without a trace of actual user information, providing a safe training ground for AI models without real-world privacy risks. Kannan Venkatraman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 Ray Wright vanished without a trace Pictured from left, granddaughter Ashtyn, daughter Haley Kendall, Ray Wright and daughter Kennedy Wright. Cameron Rubner, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024 And when one of those eleven people (and his dog) go missing without a trace, finger-pointing is inevitable, especially when everyone seems to hate each other to begin with. Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023 These are people and organizations who were engaged with Mastodon and fediverse to the point of investing real time and resources into it but simply dropped out without a trace sometime between November 2022 and now. Mark Bayliss, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023

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“Without a trace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20a%20trace. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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