Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Trace
Trace verb - To draw or make apparent the outline of.
Both words in one sentence
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The Necrons actively avoid this, preferring to teleport away without a trace rather than lose a battle.
Source: Last Stand -
Years pass, and you try to protect your child as well as you know how — and then a horrible, monstrous force steals your child away, and you lose all trace of them... And after journeying for days in search of said child, arriving to find them dead.
Source: Western Animation / Finding Nemo
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