to trace the origins

Examples

• All

• Having traced the origins of these two characteristics, Buckle resolves to show their historical consequences.

  Academic text (2004)

• In the next section, I will trace the origin of this alleged "indolence."

  Academic text (2004)

• Ask your technical specialists to trace the origin of the message.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Hanging up the phone, I try to trace the origin of our dilemma.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Some commenters trace the origin of the edit to Colorado.

  Blog text (22)

• In fact, we can trace the origin of religious experience to before Homo sapiens.

• The foregoing historical sketch makes it easier to trace the origins of the modern underclass.

  Academic text (1992)

• Teach young people the value of infographics by encouraging students to evaluate and trace the origin of an infographic on a particular subject.

  Academic text (2014)

• Broadcast historian Mike Conway traced the origin of the newscast to two fifteen-minute daily television programs that began on New York's WCBW in July 1941.

  Academic text (2017)

• Investigators are working to trace the origins of the mysterious artifact found at the archaeological site.

Synonyms

T

to trace

vsto trace the origins

455 3.3

To follow and find where something began

is aimed at finding the precise starting source rather than general path

B

to backtrace

vsto trace the origins

2 7.2

To follow program steps backward to find the first error

uses wider investigation to determine overall beginnings not only steps

U

to understand the history behind

vsto trace the origins

3.9

To know the past events that lead to something

involves active inquiry to pinpoint exact starting sources rather than background

Antonyms

O

to obscure

86 7.0

Make something hard to see or understand

How Certain

to establish

• Formal

319 4.1

to trace the origins

3 5.1

to investigate

∞ 2.8

to suggest

∞ 1.6

to speculate

254 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology