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. 12, 2026
Let’s rewind: Davis is the lead voice of the Dodgers on SportsNet LA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
“No, wait, just hear me out. Here, rewind it a bit? Like, to the part where he points at her?”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
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
There’s a confusing beat when, without warning, the film switches cities and rewinds a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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
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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
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
My memory rewound much farther to one of the first conventions I attended in 1996.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
She watched to the end, rewound and watched again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
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
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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
“That’s basically rewinding 10 years of demand growth.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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
I would never be able to give my father a proper burial, but by honoring the dead, I felt like I was rewinding the clock.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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