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rewind

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


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"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

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

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

Mom popped in a DVD for me and made sure my hands were properly positioned so I could rewind and fast-forward the him.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 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

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

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

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

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

Instead, he and the director Steven Caple Jr. have rewound the clock to 1994 for yet another demolition derby.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."

From Salon ● May 14, 2023

She undid her hair, brushed it out, and rewound it into a neat, freshly pinned bun.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

“That’s basically rewinding 10 years of demand growth.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

For some at the tape event, rewinding to another time is more than a hobby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

As me and Lovey climbed out and the new people climbed in, the fast-forwarding and rewinding started all over again.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds



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