How to Use tracing in a Sentence

tracing

noun
  • Last year, many of the absences were due to contact tracing.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The whole point of contact tracing is to break the chain of infection.
    oregonlive, 13 Aug. 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
  • And, if parents do alert their schools, the process for contact tracing may be quicker.
    Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 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
  • As for contact tracing, the city is in the process of shrinking its Test and Trace Corps, which last summer boasted of some 3,000 workers.
    New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Then they were shut down for two weeks before their spring break because of contact tracing.
    Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Contact tracing found that less than 1% of the cases confirmed since that point stemmed from the tournament, Caine said.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2021
  • We were assigned to the same table each night – better for contact tracing.
    Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2021
  • Then the pandemic broke out and the company launched a Covid-19 contact tracing app, SafePass.
    Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • Then he was sidelined at times due to contact tracing, Mouser said.
    Travis Hines, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Build in less than a week’s time a call center dedicated to contact tracing in Texas.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
  • If the virus is spreading within a school, that might be identified through contact tracing.
    Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Players who are two weeks past their full vaccination no longer are required by the league to be away from teams due to such contact tracing.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • In other words, contact tracing was useful in interrupting the spread of the disease.
    Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Massialas has spent the past 14 days quarantined in a hotel because of contact tracing.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021
  • Santa Cruz could have canceled the game, but, instead, took the players out through contact tracing, shrinking its roster for the road game just in order to play.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Swinney said turnaround time for contact tracing is 24 to 48 hours, and that procedure has been refined through time.
    Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • School nurses, who are responsible for contact tracing as well as student care, have been hard to come by.
    al, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Each scarf comes with a digital tag that enables the tracing of the product back to its origin, providing transparency and connecting clients to the source of their garment.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 15 July 2024
  • These include: In school settings, testing, contact tracing, masks, and isolation cannot be counted on to control the spread of an avian flu that has adapted to efficiently infect humans.
    Mario Ramirez, STAT, 11 July 2024

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