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retread

[ree-tred, ree-tred] / riˈtrɛd, ˈriˌtrɛd /














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Remember, it isn’t supposed to be a retread, e.g. put one shoe you’re wearing home in the hotel safe so you don’t forget your passport and other valuables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga’aia star in a dull and dutiful retread of Disney’s 2016 animated film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

It is a foul sin to disturb them; but retread your devious way, and let her hear your coming footsteps, breaking down the briers, as you renew the danger.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

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

Perhaps it’s inevitable that on Green Day’s 14th studio album, some of the songs have beats and chord progressions that can feel like retreads.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 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

Not everyone has been a fan of the studio’s regular retreads of animation classics.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 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

“I’m quite interested in finding new ways of retreading or telling the same story over and over again in different ways,” Mr. MacMillan, 60, said in a recent interview.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2019

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


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