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Remember, it isn’t supposed to be a retread, e.g. put one shoe you’re wearing home in the hotel safe so you don’t forget your passport and other valuables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Similarly, Raymond James analyst Chris Meekins said the plan unveiled on Thursday is “a retread of previously advocated-for positions and there is no legislative path forward for much of it, in our view.”

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

The film is a narrative retread of its predecessor, packed to the brim with callbacks and cameos that seem intended to spark a brief conversation online before burning out entirely, not unlike most Netflix originals.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

There was only one retread and even that one, a reprise of the standout “Traffic Altercation,” was worth revisiting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

Napoleon, irritated at this, acrimoniously replied, that "he liked simple plans, less circuitous routes, high roads, the road by which he had come, yet he would not retread it but with peace."

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur

Movie industry watchers say their success shows that audiences are hungry for imaginative, unpredictable storytelling from fresh faces, rather than the big studios’ tired sequels and retreads.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Despite some of its retreads, it will thrill new gamers to the genre looking to get deeply lost and lock themselves into a 50-hour odyssey of swords and sorcery.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

At the moment, it appears to be a refuge for former cable news retreads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

The Marilyn retreads they attacked should help us understand that more than almost any other artist, Warhol was willing to recognize how stuff that starts life looking like art can end it acting like currency.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Comes a grown man from the rear somewhere; silently and with stately tread he walks across the long room to the cabinet, takes one teacup in each hand and retreads the space towards the back.

From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey

On the play, Beaty rounded third base aggressively and quickly retreaded back to the base — but after he appeared to make contact with third-base coach Vance Wilson.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

Vehicle owners can decide whether to have their used tyres repaired or regrooved or whether to buy new or retreaded replacements — if such services exist.

From Nature ● Mar. 22, 2016

In that new circumstance, leftovers don’t feel retreaded, but reframed.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2016

The seasonal offerings are both weird and familiar—the old and new mixed up, remixed, retreaded, mostly dreaded.

From Forbes ● Dec. 22, 2014

The front off-side Dunlop tire had been blown out of the rim, the cause being that it was a "retreaded" tire which had stretched until it was no longer held in its place.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent

Some have classroom teachers and courses that give a preview of high school rather than retreading eighth grade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

A rebooted reboot also has to be hyper-avoidant of retreading the same territory as a franchise’s first reset, for fear of alienating skeptics even more, which is a move that can very easily backfire.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025

Pitchfork's Olivia Horn said Swift was "largely retreading old territory", an accusation echoed by Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul, who said the star was "going through the motions while running in place".

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

Each new book, though retreading familiar ground, reveals new layers to Louis’ redemptive insight and vision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022

Often on the way back, my tires retreading the path we’d driven, I looked over at the passenger seat.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak