retrace
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Federal investigators used data from a network of license-plate readers and traffic-surveillance cameras collected by local police to retrace her movements in the days before the shooting, court documents show.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
With Ukrainian airspace closed because of the war with Russia, they will then retrace their steps to Poland and fly to London for next week's second leg.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
To help drive his point home, Krinsky cited several recent examples: Silver prices soared in January, before a punishing selloff saw the white metal retrace nearly all of its year-to-date gains.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
He also spoke briefly about his upcoming episodic HBO series, “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Happiness,” a historical spoof that will retrace United States history for the country’s 250th founding anniversary.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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