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
I still remember sitting in front of the VCR to press the rewind button to rewatch my favorite part — when Wadsworth explains the crimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
I would rewind the tape and look at it again, and I would get still more information.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
“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
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
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
"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
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
The scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Brandon rewound the video, then played it back.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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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
For some at the tape event, rewinding to another time is more than a hobby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
“Dad had a spirit,” she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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