Tracing

Tracing a renegade's family background, you'll find him the black sheep.

There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

Scientists have developed apps that can be used for contact tracing.

Before COVID-19, much of the contact tracing U.S. health departments did was for sexually transmitted infections, which carry more of a stigma than the coronavirus infection.

Police kept tracing down the group.

Samaritans descend from ancient Israelites who worshiped at a temple on Mount Gerizim, tracing themselves to the northern Kingdom of Israel.

Food traceability is the ability to follow the movement of a food product and its ingredients through all steps in the supply chain, both backward and forward. Traceability involves documenting and linking the production, processing, and distribution chain of food products and ingredients. In the case of a foodborne illness outbreak or contamination event, efficient product tracing helps government agencies and those who produce and sell food to rapidly find the source of the product and where contamination may have occurred. This enables faster removal of the affected product from the marketplace, reducing incidences of foodborne illnesses.

U.S. copyright law technically doesn't protect font designs, only the font files that contain them. Still, tracing commercial fonts to resell them as your own is largely considered a dick move.