rewind
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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. 23, 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
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
“And don’t you miss nothing in that video —use that rewind button, watch it twice if you have to, but don’t you miss nothing.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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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
Originally the antagonist in "Furie," the prequel rewinds to show the backstory for Thanh Sói.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
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
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
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
I rewound the final beat of this week’s episode of “The Curse” immediately after first watching it, and have found myself revisiting it many times since.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Ekman rewound the tape and replayed it in slow motion.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
The Muschiettis have a three-season plan for “Welcome to Derry,” with the potential second to be set in 1935 and the third rewinding to 1908.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
“You’ve gotta see this,” I said, rewinding the tape back to the beginning of the section.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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