Traceable
adjective
If something is traceable, you can find it or discover where it is by looking for evidence.
The police said the stolen car was not traceable.
Often appears as...
- traceable evidence
- traceable sources
adjective
If something is traceable to a particular person, place, or thing, you can discover that they are the source or cause of it.
The problem was traceable to a software glitch.
Often appears as...
- traceable to a source
- traceable to a person
adjective
If something is traceable, you can find it or discover where it is by looking for evidence.
The police said the stolen car was not traceable.
Often appears as...
- traceable evidence
- traceable sources
adjective
If something is traceable to a particular person, place, or thing, you can discover that they are the source or cause of it.
The problem was traceable to a software glitch.
Often appears as...
- traceable to a source
- traceable to a person
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Pro Tip 1/3Evidence Required
To say something is 'traceable', there must be clues or evidence pointing to its existence or location.
Even with modern technology, the artifact remains untraceable.
Pro Tip 2/3Detective Work
'Traceable' often implies that careful investigation or analysis is needed to locate something.
The source of the leak was traceable after extensive research.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Traceable' might have a negative connotation when it comes to privacy, suggesting unwanted tracking.
Users were concerned that their data was traceable by advertisers.
Pro Tip 1/3Evidence Required
To say something is 'traceable', there must be clues or evidence pointing to its existence or location.
Even with modern technology, the artifact remains untraceable.
Pro Tip 2/3Detective Work
'Traceable' often implies that careful investigation or analysis is needed to locate something.
The source of the leak was traceable after extensive research.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Traceable' might have a negative connotation when it comes to privacy, suggesting unwanted tracking.
Users were concerned that their data was traceable by advertisers.
Pro Tip 1/3Evidence Required
To say something is 'traceable', there must be clues or evidence pointing to its existence or location.
Even with modern technology, the artifact remains untraceable.
Pro Tip 2/3Detective Work
'Traceable' often implies that careful investigation or analysis is needed to locate something.
The source of the leak was traceable after extensive research.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Traceable' might have a negative connotation when it comes to privacy, suggesting unwanted tracking.
Users were concerned that their data was traceable by advertisers.
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Your body was forged in...
There are more atoms in our bodies than stars in the universe. And these atoms are extremely durable. The origins of our atoms can be traceable to stars that manufactured them in their interiors
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Your body was forged in...
There are more atoms in our bodies than stars in the universe. And these atoms are extremely durable. The origins of our atoms can be traceable to stars that manufactured them in their interiors
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Quote examples
Masha Gessen
Russian Journalist
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.
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John Cleese
English Actor
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.
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Brian Ferneyhough
British Composer
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.
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Ford Frick
American Journalist
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Manuel Puig
Argentinian Author
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Quote examples
Masha Gessen
Russian Journalist
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.
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John Cleese
English Actor
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
Quote examples
Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.
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Brian Ferneyhough
British Composer
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.
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Ford Frick
American Journalist
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Manuel Puig
Argentinian Author
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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