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rewind

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


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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

To rewind the tape, the court held that the NCAA’s restrictions on education-related benefits for student athletes violated federal antitrust laws.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 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

If I could rewind and take back all my hurtful words, I would do it in an instant.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 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

Then the story rewinds to three days earlier, where we see Abby in a WLF bunker waking from a nap.

From Salon May 26, 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

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 scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.

From New York Times Apr. 25, 2023

She sat with her hands out like paddles while I unwound the skeins and rewound them into a ball.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

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

The paradox of “Nouvelle Vague” is that it trumpets the urgency to make something fresh while itself rewinding to show how something was done 65 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2025

His car was old and still had a tape deck, and he spent the first few minutes of the ride rewinding and fast-forwarding, trying to find a song.

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



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