tracer

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Recent Examples of tracer 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 The sun had set, but now the lake was full of phosphorescence so all the movement in the water left sparkling tracers. Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tracer
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Noun
  • The shark skin can be applied to an aircraft’s fuselage, wings, and tail, and could improve efficiency up to 4 percent, according to Micro Tau estimates.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 May 2025
  • Lose a tail and stem cells in the spinal cord sync up like an orchestra, accelerating their division in unison to rebuild the missing structure.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Last fans saw, she was picked up by two New York Police Department officers who escorted her off a bus and told her detectives at the police station had questions for her about Famous' death.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • Resurrection, a sci-fi detective movie from Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), is a late addition to this year’s competition.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025

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“Tracer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracer. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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