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Visitors to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami are given an introduction to this singular process in “Masaomi Yasunaga: Traces of Memory,” the artist’s first major U.S. museum exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Traces of his partner's DNA were also found but they might have been transferred there through contact with a person or object, she added.
From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025
Traces of this background are peppered into his speech, where he uses expressions like “USCs” and “family units.”
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
Traces of polio - which is spread through faecal matter - were found in sewage samples collected from two different sites in Gaza a month ago, indicating that the virus may be circulating.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024
“We every where met with the Ruins of large Villages with no Traces left of them but the Foundation of the Houses,” lamented David Samwell, the ship’s surgeon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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