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traces

verb

Third person singular of trace

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The word "traces" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small amount of evidence or a faint sign of something that once existed. For example: "The police found traces of blood at the crime scene."

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Along the way he became king of the lads: a poster boy for hedonism but with traces of street poet.

Officers also found a top with traces of Mr Brown's DNA and and fibres found on Mr ap Rhys Pryce's overcoat were microscopically indistinguishable from the material of that top.

They discovered polonium traces on the seats – 26E and 26F – where Kovtun and Luovoi had been sitting.

While that idea might take a while to be realised, children like Prisha and Khushi, who have painted their names on the road next to a chalk drawn game of hopscotch, are happy to claim their piece of road paradise till noon, when the roaring traffic will wipe away all traces of an idyllic morning.

There were no traces recorded in the city for the other three drugs tested – cannabis, methamphetamine and amphetamine.

Written by Frank Deasy, the BBC's four-part series is set in 1982 and traces the formative years of the Edinburgh's heroin explosion.

One of Blake's heroes is Mala, the dubstep pioneer who shook dub's steady beats on to a parallel axis – Blake traces the line further, going past Burial's night bus and into the coffee house and the jazz club.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the transitive-verb form of "to curate" – as in, "he curated a collection of hats" – to the performance-art scene of the early 80s.

"How close did the car go to your blanket?" He traces a rectangle, in the dirt, with his finger: "My blanket".

Devised by Bill Cheswick of Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs and Hal Burch of Carnegie Mellon university, it traces the routes that pieces of data take to reach up to 20,000 nodes (computers like web and email servers) connected to the web.

Are we not proud of that?" But he also has a keen sense of what he calls "social and moral responsibility", and talks movingly about how developments he traces to Westminster have offended against it: the demise of neighbourliness and community spirit, the fate of local industry.

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