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retread

verb as in patch

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Example Sentences

Across more than two decades, the franchise has been using a collection of retreads, burnouts, stopgaps and castoffs to fill the sport’s most important role.

Depending on who you ask, that sounds like a derivative retread or box office gold.

From Time

Such retread stories from the past, they say, do not worry them.

And this never-never tepid retread of a Bush-era policy is, incredibly, the only actual policy on offer.

Instead he mocked them and rehashed old ideas with retread rhetoric.

The line was a retread from his speech in 2008, where he used an almost identical opener.

Nor is his often-riveting new memoir an exercise in nostalgia, apologia, or retread rhetoric.

He turned, as these thoughts passed through his mind, and began hastily to retread his footsteps towards the castle.

I was not insensible that my path became more intricate and more difficult to retread in proportion as I advanced.

Well, would you walk into the Center for a Retread now without being sure he's wrong?

On examination we found that there was no outlet practicable for us in this channel, and that we must retread our steps.

McKenzie was getting old, he wanted a Retread, and wanted it badly.

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On this page you'll find 481 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to retread, such as: adjust, correct, overhaul, patch, rebuild, and regulate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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