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is retracing
verb
To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
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Even when Siggi is retracing his own steps, the landscape of the Forbidden Coast is constantly changing.
Now, historian Sam Willis is retracing the ancient route, armed with a Polaroid camera, a sketchbook, a big toothy smile and a nice turn of phrase.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year journey that began in Ethiopia and will end in Tierra del Fuego.
He spoke with several guests including Colonel John N. Blashford-Snell, (who is in charge of Operation Drake which is retracing the circumnavigation of the globe made by Sir Francis Drake from 1577 to 1580) and Lewis Cotlow, an eighty-two year old former recipient of the gold Explorers Club Medal.
Roberto Firmino is retracing the steps that have taken him from Brazil's north-east to England's north-west when he recounts an event that demonstrates how far his country has departed from the style that once brought international acclaim and titles.
As an American, he also made the project of childhood a recapitulation of man's ascent from primeval swamps: "There's nothing in the world more fascinating than watching a child grow… Each child as he develops is retracing the whole history of mankind, physically and spiritually, step by step".
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The only thing to do is retrace our steps and find ourselves again.
The route of the Acton Minutemen is retraced every Patriots' Day in April by today's recreated company of Acton Minutemen, and by citizens and visitors.
They are retracing Darwin's voyage to the same islands in 1835 aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.
When I realized that I was retracing that winter walk with Eddie, I felt safer.
Eventually he was retracing the steps of his adopted country's writers.
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