re-tread
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of re-tread
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And when you die, you can choose to resurrect at the last site of grace you activated or a special statue you’ve passed, potentially saving you from an arduous re-tread through a difficult area.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021
“He doesn’t want to re-tread ground that he’s covered before,” Wayne Kramer, the guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit rock band the MC5, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
But it’s a bit incomplete to simply call this a re-tread of HBO’s bro-tastic dramedy.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
Partners was a mediocre Will & Grace re-tread, written by that show's authors and apparently determined to drag us all back to the sitcom stylings of the mid-1990s.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2012
Should some great angel say to me to-morrow, “Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start,But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow, Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart.”
From Poems of Power by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
But the ability for regular re-treading and 3D printing could be a game changer.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022
"This is re-treading the path of life at a stride." he said, suffering his hand to fall upon that of his companion.
From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore
He glanced neither to the right nor to the left, but strode on, striking into this path and now into that, frequently re-treading the very ground which he had left but a moment before.
From The Northern Light by Werner, E.
As soon, then, as he saw the walls once more, he wheeled round and re-trod his steps, then looked at his watch, and found that it was a quarter past three.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
The step in being thus gained, can never be lost, nor can it be re-trod; for neither party will be again what the other wants.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
The three men now slowly returned from their useless chase, and re-trod the way they had passed once in such a hurry that they could hardly recognize it.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett
Lin-Manuel Miranda might be tickled to see how the trickle-down of his stylings can elevate even the most dubious of re-trodden I.P.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
But the one step farther--that could not be re-trodden, and it was in the nature of the man to hesitate at the last, and to consider if he were getting full value.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
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