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rewind

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


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I still remember sitting in front of the VCR to press the rewind button to rewatch my favorite part — when Wadsworth explains the crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"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

I wish I could rewind to last weekend so I could study even harder, stay even more focused, refuse to take a break when Mom insisted.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

“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

This fantasy chat plays out in all its white cluelessness as the sitcom rewinds and repeats on mute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

The narrative rewinds by years, days, hours and occasionally seconds, portraying the Captain's memory as a fickle fiend that equally protects him and exposes his fraud.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024

“Pamela, a Love Story” powerfully rewinds Pamela Anderson’s life and fame.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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

For me, opening my heart to Lynch began when I rewound to the beginning of his career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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

Ekman rewound the tape and replayed it in slow motion.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Fehlbaum is fascinated by how a story gets told and proves the impact of rewinding a shot to play it again in slow motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

“Dad had a spirit,” she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer



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