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rewind

[ree-wahynd, ree-wahynd] / riˈwaɪnd, ˈriˌwaɪnd /


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That's all in real time as the match happens, but you can also rewind key moments, switch cameras and see stats.

From BBC Jun. 23, 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

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

I would rewind the tape and look at it again, and I would get still more information.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

This fantasy chat plays out in all its white cluelessness as the sitcom rewinds and repeats on mute.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

If a viewer rewinds during this part, Netflix wants to know why.

From Salon Jan. 25, 2026

“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

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

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

Ekman stopped the tape, rewound it, and played it back in slow motion.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

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

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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