rewind

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

I wanted to replay my 20s, to rewind, to fast-forward, to choose differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

“Did you see that? Alex, rewind the hologram thingy.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

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

Originally the antagonist in "Furie," the prequel rewinds to show the backstory for Thanh Sói.

From Salon ● Mar. 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

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

Instead, he and the director Steven Caple Jr. have rewound the clock to 1994 for yet another demolition derby.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."

From Salon ● May 14, 2023

This explained the mechanics of HeLa’s immortality: telomerase constantly rewound the ticking clock at the end of Henrietta’s chromosomes so they never grew old and never died.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

I would never be able to give my father a proper burial, but by honoring the dead, I felt like I was rewinding the clock.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros