rewind
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But let’s rewind for a bit of context: what Welch knew at that brunch—but most of the “Seinfeld” viewing public didn’t understand—was that NBC didn’t own “Seinfeld.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
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
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
She wanted to rewind the last hour and do it all over again.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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But “Black Zombie” rewinds to the monster’s Haitian roots to examine an even darker origin tied to that country’s shared history with ours.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
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
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
My memory rewound much farther to one of the first conventions I attended in 1996.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
She watched to the end, rewound and watched again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
While Morgan remotely rewound video for coaches on the bench to look at, Ohashi watched a higher up, wide-angle “coach’s camera” feed offering a better view of the play.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
Brandon rewound the video, then played it back.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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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
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
He loves rewinding the trains backward up the tracks and speeding them ahead to almost crashing, over and over.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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