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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

Boaz was still getting his bearings and fighting the nausea from the brief rewind when he heard hurried footsteps and saw Hila running toward them.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“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

Originally the antagonist in "Furie," the prequel rewinds to show the backstory for Thanh Sói.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2023

Act 2 rewinds to put Charlie at the scene.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 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

The accumulated mutations serve as a clock that, if calibrated with known dates, can be rewound to pinpoint the dates of divergences.

From Science Magazine Mar. 27, 2023

She sat with her hands out like paddles while I unwound the skeins and rewound them into a ball.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

"Yeah, I think it's my favorite song right now. I keep rewinding it, and playing it over and over again. It's nice not to have to worry about batteries."

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell



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