rewind
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"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
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 wanted to go back to sleep, rewind to yesterday.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“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
There’s a confusing beat when, without warning, the film switches cities and rewinds a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
The narrative rewinds by years, days, hours and occasionally seconds, portraying the Captain's memory as a fickle fiend that equally protects him and exposes his fraud.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 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
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 scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Brandon rewound the video, then played it back.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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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
The Muschiettis have a three-season plan for “Welcome to Derry,” with the potential second to be set in 1935 and the third rewinding to 1908.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
She had the remote in her hand and was rewinding the movie.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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