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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

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

I’ve never helped a snakebite victim, saved a boy from a well, and met a psychic all in one day, so there’s a lot to rewind.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“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

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

The three-part spinoff prequel rewinds to the 1970s, a time when New York was a massive hairball, apparently.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2023

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

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

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

Instead, he and the director Steven Caple Jr. have rewound the clock to 1994 for yet another demolition derby.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The movie played on and then finished and then ran its credits, went to black screen, clicked off, rewound, started playing automatically again; I kept on gluing.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

And while there is real tension generated by Mr. Affleck’s direction—as there was in “The Town,” “Gone Baby Gone” and “Argo”—the ending might have viewers rewinding in order to understand the payoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

Fehlbaum is fascinated by how a story gets told and proves the impact of rewinding a shot to play it again in slow motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

As me and Lovey climbed out and the new people climbed in, the fast-forwarding and rewinding started all over again.

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


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