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rewind

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


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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

“Did you see that? Alex, rewind the hologram thingy.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 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

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

Act 2 rewinds to put Charlie at the scene.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 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

“Back to the Future” deserves to be endlessly rewound.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2025

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

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

From Salon May 14, 2023

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

This explained the mechanics of HeLa’s immortality: telomerase constantly rewound the ticking clock at the end of Henrietta’s chromosomes so they never grew old and never died.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

Southern and McSpadden both mentioned the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone as another example of a successful rewinding.

From Salon May 31, 2024

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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