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rewind

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


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We can’t rewind the tape without the war to see if its warning was valid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

I wanted to replay my 20s, to rewind, to fast-forward, to choose differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

I would rewind the tape and look at it again, and I would get still more information.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The action rewinds from Gretta and Dan’s initial meeting at the bar, and later fast–forwards to speed up some of the more boring bits of the album-writing process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

If a viewer rewinds during this part, Netflix wants to know why.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

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

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

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

Roche then allegedly rewound and replayed the offensive part of the video, causing some attendees to groan and walk out of class.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023

But right then, Colin pulled the minirecorder out of his pocket and rewound it.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

I suppose I should back up here, rewinding us through the heavy heat of that summer, through the disorienting haze of those long months after my father died.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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