rewind
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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
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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
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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
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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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