rewind
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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
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
I wish I could rewind the clock, but I know that’s impossible.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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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
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
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
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
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
For me, opening my heart to Lynch began when I rewound to the beginning of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
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
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
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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
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
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
As me and Lovey climbed out and the new people climbed in, the fast-forwarding and rewinding started all over again.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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