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rewind

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


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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

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

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

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

As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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 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

Slouching on a couch, Hesme cuts a grave figure as she rewinds a video: the message Hamlet receives from her murdered father, here projected on a large scrim.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

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

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

“Back to the Future” deserves to be endlessly rewound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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

She is wearing down—like a clock needing to be rewound.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

As I push the minute hand back and forth, it feels like I am rewinding time, back to the early 1960s when the portrait was made, then fast-forwarding it to now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

As I was rewinding the tape, somebody knocked on the front door.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen


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