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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

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

What we have the power to do is not rewind or watch all the way through, but to turn something off.

From Salon Jan. 25, 2026

I’ve never helped a snakebite victim, saved a boy from a well, and met a psychic all in one day, so there’s a lot to rewind.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

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

So far, the series has started with the discovery of a dead body at the end of the week, then rewinds to guest arrivals and plays out from there.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2022

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

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

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

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 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

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

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen



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