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rewind

[ree-wahynd, ree-wahynd] / riˈwaɪnd, ˈriˌwaɪnd /


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But let’s rewind for a bit of context: what Welch knew at that brunch—but most of the “Seinfeld” viewing public didn’t understand—was that NBC didn’t own “Seinfeld.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The team attempted to "rewind the clock" by about 80 million years, which is how long the rock is estimated to have been exposed at the Martian surface.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026

It was also possible to rewind livestreams from the start, and download archived clips.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

What we have the power to do is not rewind or watch all the way through, but to turn something off.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

He wondered vaguely if Molly had tried to rewind the film as his head spun and he fought off the urge to be sick.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

There’s a confusing beat when, without warning, the film switches cities and rewinds a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

The film rewinds to December 1970 and the cusp of Christmas break for Barton, an Ivy League feeder school for boys in suburban Massachusetts.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024

Unfortunately, the staging, with interstitial rewinds as seen in “Hamilton,” is so unclear you may have trouble following any of the outcomes, which all involve one of the regulars at Trish’s.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Werner rewinds the resistance track and splices the wires and plugs in the radio.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

When you hit the button, you’ll be rewinded two minutes back in the stream, Twitch tells The Verge.

From The Verge ● Oct. 20, 2021

And if the clock is rewound further back, Manchester City's rebuild of the team that won the 2023 Champions League really began in January 2025 after a difficult start to that season.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

My memory rewound much farther to one of the first conventions I attended in 1996.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024

I rewound the final beat of this week’s episode of “The Curse” immediately after first watching it, and have found myself revisiting it many times since.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

While Morgan remotely rewound video for coaches on the bench to look at, Ohashi watched a higher up, wide-angle “coach’s camera” feed offering a better view of the play.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

She is wearing down—like a clock needing to be rewound.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

She said during one recent performance a man came up behind her and started rewinding one of the decks.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

If this sounds like a lot of work, or unduly time-consuming, remember that it’s still a lot faster than rewinding weeks of work or a mistaken decision based on incorrect information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

“That’s basically rewinding 10 years of demand growth.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Fehlbaum is fascinated by how a story gets told and proves the impact of rewinding a shot to play it again in slow motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

"Yeah, I think it's my favorite song right now. I keep rewinding it, and playing it over and over again. It's nice not to have to worry about batteries."

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell


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