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Retread
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To tread again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
(2) Good day: retread minister David Laws fondly recalled his first Lib Dem conference in 1994 when rampaging delegates called for legalised pot and an end to the monarchy.
(3) After 20 minutes of this well-designed and passably kinetic, albeit utterly humourless and derivative retread, I began to feel those two words like some kind of goading, pulsing taunt, as if they'd been implanted in my brain like the bespoke memories you can buy in the movie.
(4) "It was just a retread of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years," Obama said.
(5) The bulk were retreaded Old Labourites who, together with people who voted Green at the election, gave Corbyn his victory.
(6) Critics complain that the ranks of ex-Westminster retreads and former police authority chairmen that dominate the lists so far, despite the best efforts of Lord Prescott, are hardly sprinkled with stardust.
(7) Some are decent films, but are simply retreading narratives that we are fed again and again: our particular favourites are when White-People-Solve-Racism (The Help) or Arabs-Are-Up-To-No-Good (The Hurt Locker).
(8) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
(9) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
(10) The readability debate is in fact another retread of various arguments that beset what has become known as literary fiction – a woolly genre that encompasses books that don't sell very well, books that aren't "genre" fiction and anything with a taint of modernism or experiment.
(11) It is the Blairite retreads in his own party that censor his passion.
(12) Even the movie that was supposed to herald the return of the genre more than two decades ago, Clint Eastwood 's Oscar-winning Unforgiven , was a brilliant retread of familiar themes rather than a plunge into fresh waters.
(13) And younger MPs have indeed shown some interest in new ideas and imaginative policies that aren’t simply retreads of the previous government’s initiatives.
(14) albopictus, an investigation of tire retreading operations was initiated to determine the source and mode of introduction of Ae.
(15) However, it could not repeat the first film's positive critical reception, with reviewers complaining that the storyline amounted to little more than an unimaginative retread of part one.
(16) But he kept the boat afloat with a handful of retreads and wannabes, and most of all, well above average pitching .
(17) In an aircraft type retreading plant environmental samples taken at several departments showed mutagenic properties.
(18) Maybe this means a few more Christmas retreads, but who cares?