How to Use tracing in a Sentence

tracing

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  • Last year, many of the absences were due to contact tracing.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • While some users were shocked by the green dye, this isn’t the first time NYC has implemented dye tracing.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The fewer cases there are, the more effective the contact tracing is.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • This tracing process usually takes a few hours or less.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Schools are no longer required to conduct contact tracing, and most have stopped or slowed down testing.
    — Seamus McAvoy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022
  • This has been especially helpful with contact tracing, since there’s a record of what clients have been seen and when.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Without widespread testing and contact tracing, the extent of the outbreak is not clear.
    — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 8 July 2022
  • This book instead is a tracing of the U.S.’s penchant for industrial foods back to the late 19th century.
    — Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Singapore, like Hong Kong, kept the virus at bay for months with contact tracing and strict quarantines.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • These people do contact tracing and outreach, and are a key piece of trying to stop the spread of syphilis, which reached a low point in the U.S. in 2000 but has increased almost every year since.
    — Kenya Hunter, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Seizing the servers of that mixing service may well foil the FTX thieves’ attempt to evade tracing and help solve one of the central mysteries of that high-profile heist.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, contact tracing was useful in interrupting the spread of the disease.
    — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The health department offers schools paid staff to assist with contact tracing, over-the-counter rapid tests and surgical masks for students.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Laura Murray noted that the lounge had safety measures in place and took phone numbers for contact tracing.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Other states took active steps to prevent phone data from playing a role in contact tracing.
    — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Contact tracing is the best approach given the way monkeypox is transmitted, per the statement.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 25 May 2022
  • The Suffolk school division has been working with the Virginia Department of Health to do contact tracing.
    — al, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Contact tracing is under way now with people who have been in close contact with the Oakland County resident who is believed to have the virus.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • The spokesperson added that contact tracing is underway.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
  • There's some matching, coloring, tracing and spot-the-differences in this book, with enough variety to keep any Peppa Pig fan busy.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In the interest of contact tracing, Kelly informed others who spoke at the hearing of his positive test.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Universal contact tracing will be pared back to focus on the highest-risk settings only.
    — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But the new technologies also can help improve control measures, such as through provenance tracing, the guidance said.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This was enough evidence to confirm that the tracings were there, but the district couldn't identify who made them, or whether they were drawn to target Beloit Memorial.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Bost called for uniform masking mandates across the state and for the state to deploy members of the National Guard to help overwhelmed schools and nurses manage testing and contact tracing.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • In addition to the spectrographs and robotic cameras, Lucy uses Doppler tracing to measure mass.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The first was an $80 million allocation announced last week for the city’s health department to be used in the fight against the coronavirus for testing, telehealth and contact tracing.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Blockchain and smart contracts are enabling the tracking and tracing of materials—from gold to airplane parts to carbon—across complex ecosystems.
    — François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Once a global epicenter of the pandemic, New York has the country’s biggest contact tracing effort.
    — Heather Hollingsworth and Bobby Caina Calvan, Chron, 4 Dec. 2021
  • For most of the pandemic, the Asian nation managed to keep the virus at bay without a major lockdown through widespread testing and aggressive contact tracing.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022

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