trace
noun
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige.
untraced
-
a word derived from
trace.
Example Sentences
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Investigating officer Elizabeth Weston encouraged other potential victims to come forward after a number of boys were identified during the investigation but some still remain untraced.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023
Some of the funds were recovered but about $66 million remains untraced.
From Reuters ● Apr. 16, 2018
In an update this week, WHO said there was a “near-term risk of further cases among both registered and untraced contacts.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2015
In an update this week, WHO said there was a "near-term risk of further cases among both registered and untraced contacts."
From US News ● Oct. 16, 2015
But time was wasted in pourparlers, and in spite of a minute inspection, which extended even to the concubine apartments, the Boxer vanished in some mysterious way like a breath, and is even now untraced.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
