retread
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But, oh, how easy the curse’s persistence makes it to retread all those familiar plot beats, the same ones that have been removed from their context and posted to death for the last decade.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Similarly, Raymond James analyst Chris Meekins said the plan unveiled on Thursday is “a retread of previously advocated-for positions and there is no legislative path forward for much of it, in our view.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
Why you should let it fade: Not even Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning for cameo spots will make this installment feel like much more than a bow-slinging retread.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026
But what if what seemed a tired retread was actually poised on the cutting edge of televised entertainment?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
I was not insensible that my path became more intricate and more difficult to retread in proportion as I advanced.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
Movie industry watchers say their success shows that audiences are hungry for imaginative, unpredictable storytelling from fresh faces, rather than the big studios’ tired sequels and retreads.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Musty retreads of Ibsen and Chekhov, besides being counter to the maverick spirit of their play, can be soporific endurance tests.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
In an era of seemingly endless retreads on both stage and screen, seeing a truly original work in an uncommon style is an undeniable treat.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Despite some of its retreads, it will thrill new gamers to the genre looking to get deeply lost and lock themselves into a 50-hour odyssey of swords and sorcery.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
Comes a grown man from the rear somewhere; silently and with stately tread he walks across the long room to the cabinet, takes one teacup in each hand and retreads the space towards the back.
From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey
On the play, Beaty rounded third base aggressively and quickly retreaded back to the base — but after he appeared to make contact with third-base coach Vance Wilson.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Vehicle owners can decide whether to have their used tyres repaired or regrooved or whether to buy new or retreaded replacements — if such services exist.
From Nature ● Mar. 22, 2016
In that new circumstance, leftovers don’t feel retreaded, but reframed.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2016
The seasonal offerings are both weird and familiar—the old and new mixed up, remixed, retreaded, mostly dreaded.
From Forbes ● Dec. 22, 2014
The front off-side Dunlop tire had been blown out of the rim, the cause being that it was a "retreaded" tire which had stretched until it was no longer held in its place.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
Some have classroom teachers and courses that give a preview of high school rather than retreading eighth grade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
A rebooted reboot also has to be hyper-avoidant of retreading the same territory as a franchise’s first reset, for fear of alienating skeptics even more, which is a move that can very easily backfire.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
Pitchfork's Olivia Horn said Swift was "largely retreading old territory", an accusation echoed by Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul, who said the star was "going through the motions while running in place".
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
Still, he was hesitant about just repeating a story he’d already told or constantly retreading familiar territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Often on the way back, my tires retreading the path we’d driven, I looked over at the passenger seat.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
