Example sentences for: traced

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  • Various other lists could have given the essential information about names based on words with meanings such as ford and wood . An index would have allowed names to be traced in alphabetical order.

  • Yet, rumors and “common knowledge,” however inaccurate, are sometimes a misinterpretation of an event that actually occurred and, therefore, can be traced to a fact, even though distorted; the best that can be wished for is to turn up something that might have given rise to the story (like the identification of the Parson Weems tale about George Washington's honesty and the cherry tree).

  • The name has been traced back as far as 1814, and one theory is that it was the local term for a junction of two roads.

  • The origin of this expression pattern can be traced from the mesectoderm anlage in statu nascendi, to the mesectoderm anlage, to the mesectoderm (or midline primordium) and, finally, to the mature midline glial cells (Figure 6b).

  • The position of Bishop of Rome as primate of the Western Church (pope derived from “papa,” the Latin word for father), first claimed in the second century, was later asserted by Pope Leo I (440–461), who traced the succession back to St. Peter.


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