rewind
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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
It was also possible to rewind livestreams from the start, and download archived clips.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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
And I still recall the moments, rewind the movie in my head, and remember all of you, read your letters.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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“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
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
The film rewinds to December 1970 and the cusp of Christmas break for Barton, an Ivy League feeder school for boys in suburban Massachusetts.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
Act 2 rewinds to put Charlie at the scene.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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
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
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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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 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
“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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