- present participle of trace.
noun
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a copy made by tracing
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the act of making a trace
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a record made by an instrument
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tracing
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at trace 1, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Of these, 108 were in quarantine in Kenya and tracing of the remaining 15 continued, it said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Other researchers are also tracing the link between college majors and job-market outcomes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Additionally, the fact that yields have now been high for several years, tracing back to 2022, means that brokers already aren’t relying as much on cash lying around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Delays in specimen collection, transportation and testing can postpone confirmation by days or weeks, which hinders the isolation of infected persons, contact tracing and the initiation of outbreak-control measures," Sullivan wrote.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
He put his finger on the river and followed it, tracing the path as the blue line cut through the green, followed it to where he thought he must be.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
An army of people would spend a week or two searching for tiger tracks and making tracings or plaster casts of the left hind foot.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The platform’s inputs are “imaging of any type—ECG, heart tracings, echocardiograms, blood tests, labs, genetic tests and, importantly, the electronic health record,” Dr. Mansi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
I could ignore my past struggles, pretend they no longer matter, but indelible tracings remain.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Using radiocarbon tracings, the archaeologists have dated the grave to the approximate time of the construction of Stonehenge, between 3005 and 2890 B.C.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
She’d been younger than Jojo at the time, but Stella remembered the furtive whispers and the tracings of fear on the grown-ups around her when it had happened.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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