rewind
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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
The waitress blinked, as if somebody had just pressed the rewind button on her brain.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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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
Then the story rewinds to three days earlier, where we see Abby in a WLF bunker waking from a nap.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
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
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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
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
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
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
The movie played on and then finished and then ran its credits, went to black screen, clicked off, rewound, started playing automatically again; I kept on gluing.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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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
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
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