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trace

/tɹeɪs/ adjective C2
  1. Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).

Superlative tracest

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There was, however, no trace of exultation or satisfaction upon his face.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 70 · B2
Therefore, it could only have come from a train, and that train, so far as we can trace it, must have passed about midnight on Monday.”
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 13 · B2
There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 53 · B2
In a former letter he frankly informed me that the name was not his own, and defied me ever to trace him among the teeming millions of this great city.
The Valley of Fear, p. 1 · C1

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