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Tapes are back in fashion for a growing number of millennials and zoomers, especially in Los Angeles, who are hitting rewind on the format’s presumed extinction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

We can’t rewind the tape without the war to see if its warning was valid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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

Reggie apologized for his ignorance, saying he wished he could rewind the tape, give back the lives of “these great men.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

The action rewinds from Gretta and Dan’s initial meeting at the bar, and later fast–forwards to speed up some of the more boring bits of the album-writing process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Together,” Mr. Doherty notes, “the film inventory and the expert commentary created the archival documentary, the motion picture genre that preserves and rewinds our history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

“Pamela, a Love Story” powerfully rewinds Pamela Anderson’s life and fame.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Turn the pages of that diary, and her inky scrawl rewinds the clock, to a time when her story is just starting.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

For me, opening my heart to Lynch began when I rewound to the beginning of his career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024

Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that Goodwin has rewound and replayed again and again, trying to make sense of what happened.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

But right then, Colin pulled the minirecorder out of his pocket and rewound it.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

And while there is real tension generated by Mr. Affleck’s direction—as there was in “The Town,” “Gone Baby Gone” and “Argo”—the ending might have viewers rewinding in order to understand the payoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

He was too busy rewinding to break down the key moments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

His car was old and still had a tape deck, and he spent the first few minutes of the ride rewinding and fast-forwarding, trying to find a song.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds