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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Garland will work virtually while isolating at home, and the DOJ will conduct contact tracing, the statement said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The nation was able to keep the virus under control from the beginning of the pandemic through last year with its contact tracing system and social distancing campaign.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Taiwan has cut its mandatory quarantine to ten days and has signaled that contract-tracing may no longer be viable in cities with large numbers of cases.
    — Betty Hou, Bloomberg.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • And earlier this year, cryptocurrency tracing led to the bust of a New York couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion in crypto.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The new plan means that, starting Thursday, routine contact tracing will end and those who test positive will no longer be legally obliged to isolate themselves, although they will be urged to do so.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • But their use was limited by the fact that the collection of data on symptoms was incidental to the apps’ primary design — to aid in contact tracing.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The proposal includes details on contact tracing and new incentives to increase the number of substitutes in the district, the mayor said.
    — Kelly McCleary, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Smartphone tracing was a brilliant idea that did prevent some spread of Covid, but the concept never worked as effectively as initially hoped.
    — Brian Jackson, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • At the time, China’s mass testing, contact tracing and quarantine measures had already brought cases down to near zero.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2022

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