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Analysts led by Devin Ryan noted that the stock has retraced to around $21 after rising as high as $30 in late 2025.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

They also reciprocate the openness of those sitting across from them: Shepard has retraced his sobriety journey on multiple occasions, as in last year’s exchange with longtime actor friend Bradley Cooper.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2022

"Even though bitcoin has retraced a bit after tagging $42,000 over the weekend, it still managed to close the week well above $40,000," said Mikkel Morch, executive director at digital asset hedge fund ARK36.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2022

In making the “Atlas,” he has retraced sections of the early explorers’ journeys: enacting a twenty-four-hour vigil that Magellan made before leaving Portugal; standing in the spot of Columbus’s first landfall in the Bahamas.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

Having imitated the Whole by a work of mosaic, he imagines he has retraced the design of it, and made the genesis.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur