Example Sentences
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Following Friday’s bounce, stocks are set to open lower while oil prices have retraced some of their losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Yet another future president might have retraced a path toward more balanced economic or security policies once the disadvantages of trade wars or diplomatic and military isolation became obvious.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
The software stock is down 35% from its most recent 52-week high and has retraced about half of its sharp earnings-driven rally from Dec. 3.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
The stock has now retraced about 40% of the rally from the two-year closing low of $65.61 hit on Nov. 24 to the one-year closing high of $129.85 on Jan. 8.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Mentally I retraced my steps from that morning.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
