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retread

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














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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

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

The film is a narrative retread of its predecessor, packed to the brim with callbacks and cameos that seem intended to spark a brief conversation online before burning out entirely, not unlike most Netflix originals.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

If “Shadow of the Vampire” was a playful spin, Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is an utterly straight-faced and interminably dull retread of the 1922 original.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

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

From History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by Paul Allen

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

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

The catalog retreads, written for a different reason, fail to move the action forward.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 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

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


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