Tracing a renegade's family background, you'll find him the black sheep.
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Tracing
//ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ//
Synonyms for "tracing" (90 found)
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5 translations across 2 languages.
Finnish
4 entries- jäljitys noun (process of finding something)
- kalkio noun (reproduction of an image)
- piirturikäyrä noun (record in the form of a graph)
- reitti noun (regular path or track)
Portuguese
1 entries- decalque noun (reproduction of an image)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.
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Scientists have developed apps that can be used for contact tracing.
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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.
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