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
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
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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
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
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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 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
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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
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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