as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another
the tracing of this mountain lion is going to be difficult if the rain washes away all of the tracks
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1
as in defining
to draw or make apparent the outline of
trace your hand onto this piece of paper
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as in tracking
to go after or on the track of
police traced the burglar back to his apartment, where they discovered a ton of stolen loot
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Recent Examples of tracing
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
So prosecutors are being forced to try other methods to establish who fired the gun, including phone tracing, interviews and wiretapping.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2026
Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
On the West Coast, the line launches its first Alaska season with summer sailings from Vancouver and Seward, tracing classic Inside Passage routes and visiting marquee ports such as Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan and Skagway.
—David Dickstein, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Not every place has the resources for such investments, or for the testing, contact tracing, isolation rooms, vaccine clinics, and other measures necessary to help stop measles outbreaks.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
So prosecutors are being forced to try other methods to establish who fired the gun, including phone tracing, interviews and wiretapping.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2026
Verb
Those surveys have been crucial for tracing large-scale structure and studying dark energy.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
On the West Coast, the line launches its first Alaska season with summer sailings from Vancouver and Seward, tracing classic Inside Passage routes and visiting marquee ports such as Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan and Skagway.
—David Dickstein, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracing
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For Lee, trusting his hair, makeup and costume team to get kabuki’s aesthetics exactly right freed him to focus on the drama — and on the film’s central question of what an artist is willing to sacrifice in the lifelong pursuit of beauty.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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Setting off in pursuit was José María Zuloaga, a taciturn lieutenant colonel in the Mexican army supported by a band of irregulars.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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But the potentially season-defining stretch can’t be at the forefront of their minds now.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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If you’re hooked on Ryan Murphy’s Love Story, a slate of classic and recent series deliver the same 1990s glamour, New York energy and era-defining style.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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Battle also alleges that Rojas asked him to spy for her by tracking when Dear’s girlfriend or wife would leave.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Five tankers, laden with cargoes including diesel and jet fuel, that were heading west have u-turned in recent days and are now going to East Asia, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.—
Nicholas Lua,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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The department also has launched a new web page outlining immigrants’ rights during encounters with law enforcement.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Lake County Convention Center is another step closer to being built after the Gary Common Council unanimously approved an ordinance outlining the city’s involvement in the project’s financing.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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There was an undercurrent of confidence across the collections, where designers weren’t chasing spectacle, but instead refining their codes and pushing them forward in thoughtful ways.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Instead of chasing truth, the writer chases validation.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2026
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Long before downtown workshops and a growing client base, Kiel and her business partner gathered around the table every day, sketching concepts and services, and building a company from the ground up.—
Contributor,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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Local artists will lead sketching still-life arrangements of skulls, seed pods, turtle shells, tree bark, greens and fruit.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Feb. 2026
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Husso, who stopped 16 shots in the first period and 13 in both the second and third, had a timely performance amid speculation the Ducks are pursuing a backup goalie behind Lukas Dostal before Friday’s trade deadline.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Our first attempt at pursuing this logical path was the Drake Equation, which had, as its final term, the lifetime of an average intelligent, technologically advanced civilization.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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Consider how satellites reflect sunlight while also circling our planet very quickly.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Cars circling endlessly around full parking lots and lines of vehicles stretched for miles along the routes to enter the park.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Tracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracing. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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