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English word

trace

C1Academic AWL-6Frequent NGSL-3
UK /treɪs/US /treɪs/
noun

a mark, an object or a sign that shows that somebody/something existed or was present

verb

to find or discover somebody/something by looking carefully for them/it

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Sentence 67 · Pro
Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech
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Modern computing traces back to the IBM System/360.

Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech

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And then can I trace it to something that is in my life?

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