rewind
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Let’s rewind: Davis is the lead voice of the Dodgers on SportsNet LA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
To rewind the tape, the court held that the NCAA’s restrictions on education-related benefits for student athletes violated federal antitrust laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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
If I could rewind and take back all my hurtful words, I would do it in an instant.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
In Chuck years, the film starts when he’s 39 and in his final hours of fading away from brain cancer, rewinds to nine months earlier and then leaps back to his boyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Slouching on a couch, Hesme cuts a grave figure as she rewinds a video: the message Hamlet receives from her murdered father, here projected on a large scrim.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
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
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
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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
She watched to the end, rewound and watched again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
The accumulated mutations serve as a clock that, if calibrated with known dates, can be rewound to pinpoint the dates of divergences.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2023
Ekman rewound the tape and replayed it in slow motion.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
So that protection against a slump kept them from dumping stocks in a panic and subsequent rewinding of that protection provided fuel for the rally in April.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
In response, Ubisoft shut down its R6 servers and began to work on a "roll back" - essentially rewinding the clock so any purchases made prior to Saturday could be undone.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
For some at the tape event, rewinding to another time is more than a hobby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
I could use an in-person guru to help, instead of me pausing and rewinding how-to videos every few seconds to follow along.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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