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
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
“Can’t rewind time and give you a second shot at something.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
“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
The narrative rewinds by years, days, hours and occasionally seconds, portraying the Captain's memory as a fickle fiend that equally protects him and exposes his fraud.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024
“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
Angélica Garica, “No Juego” At the start of “No Juego,” we hear the sound of tape being rewound, as if to suggest that we’re about to listen to something from a different era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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
"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
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 is wearing down—like a clock needing to be rewound.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
Fehlbaum is fascinated by how a story gets told and proves the impact of rewinding a shot to play it again in slow motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
She had just dropped a ball of wool and was carefully rewinding the end of it.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
