retrace
verb (used with object)
to trace backward; go back over.
is retracing
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present progressiveof retrace (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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More than two decades on, Spencer is retracing Michael's final steps in an attempt to find his body, recording the experience in a new documentary titled "Finding Michael".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2023
Those factors may leave a person with the impression that the series is retracing familiar territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2020
Having left Houston for Minneapolis in 2014 in search of a job and a new life, Floyd is retracing that path in death.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2020
But if you treat it as a do-over — if the series, like one of its haunted antiheroes, is retracing its steps to try to get things right — then it’s fine.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Bellingham is retracing his way back to chaos, with a human brain, all lit with magic!
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
