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. 12, 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
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
I lay in bed feeling feverish as I tried to rewind what I had done and find a way to make it so that it had never happened.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“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
In Chuck years, the film starts when he’s 39 and in his final hours of fading away from brain cancer, rewinds to nine months earlier and then leaps back to his boyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
The film rewinds to December 1970 and the cusp of Christmas break for Barton, an Ivy League feeder school for boys in suburban Massachusetts.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
“Pamela, a Love Story” powerfully rewinds Pamela Anderson’s life and fame.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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
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 scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Ekman rewound the tape and replayed it in slow motion.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
“That’s basically rewinding 10 years of demand growth.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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
He loves rewinding the trains backward up the tracks and speeding them ahead to almost crashing, over and over.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
