Example Sentences

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It isn’t just U.S. stocks that have retraced their postconflict moves; the dollar has also erased most of its gains since the fighting began.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 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

They anchored too tightly to precedent, particularly the market’s short-lived flare-up in June, which retraced once flows quickly normalized.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Market expectations were for employment to dip by a modest 5,000 jobs, following a jump of 60,400 in September that retraced some of the more than 106,000 jobs lost in the two months before that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

My mind retraced my three weeks of training in fifteen seconds.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore