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rewind

[ree-wahynd, ree-wahynd] / riˈwaɪnd, ˈriˌwaɪnd /


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Let’s rewind: Davis is the lead voice of the Dodgers on SportsNet LA.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 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

It was also possible to rewind livestreams from the start, and download archived clips.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2026

“Did you see that? Alex, rewind the hologram thingy.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

“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

This fantasy chat plays out in all its white cluelessness as the sitcom rewinds and repeats on mute.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

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

My memory rewound much farther to one of the first conventions I attended in 1996.

From Salon Aug. 1, 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

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

They rewound the tape so that he popped back up, flopped again, popped back up, and flopped again.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

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

For some at the tape event, rewinding to another time is more than a hobby.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2025

I would never be able to give my father a proper burial, but by honoring the dead, I felt like I was rewinding the clock.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros



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