retrace
verb (used with object)
to trace backward; go back over.
had retraced
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past perfectof retrace.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The coroner’s investigator, who had retraced Gil’s life before his demise, helped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
On a country road I had retraced some steps, and a path taken long ago had somehow, fittingly, come full circle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014
But one day after what many likely interpreted as an “all clear” for selling in the short term, the stock had retraced virtually all of the previous session’s decline.
From Forbes ● Aug. 28, 2012
The huntsmen had retraced their steps halfway to Winterfell without finding any sign of where the Starks might have parted company with the direwolves.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Then he had retraced his course across the pampas, and, collecting a party of miners at Mendoza, had conducted them over the Andes to Santiago, the capital of Chili.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
