retread
verb (used with object)
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Only fresh element to appear is Rumdum, who gets thrown out of saloons in pantomime; otherwise Gleason has retreaded the old sit-bys, e.g., the Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III.
From Time Magazine Archive
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