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Common collocations with trace in American Collocation

trace verb transitive

US /treɪs/

people who used to be in your family

ancestors
ancestry
descendants
descent
genealogy
lineage
pedigree

Those of us who spend a lot of time tracing our pedigree take for granted that the records we find are true.

beginnings

emergence
genesis
origins
roots

The club can actually trace its origins back to 1903.

history or development

development
evolution
history
progress

This exhibition traces the history of the fast-fading tradition of Punjabi wrestling.