rewind
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Tapes are back in fashion for a growing number of millennials and zoomers, especially in Los Angeles, who are hitting rewind on the format’s presumed extinction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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
It was also possible to rewind livestreams from the start, and download archived clips.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
He talks on at a very fast pace, but I rewind to one word that Bernie has spoken.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
If a viewer rewinds during this part, Netflix wants to know why.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
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
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
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
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 accumulated mutations serve as a clock that, if calibrated with known dates, can be rewound to pinpoint the dates of divergences.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2023
They rewound the tape so that he popped back up, flopped again, popped back up, and flopped again.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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 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
He loves rewinding the trains backward up the tracks and speeding them ahead to almost crashing, over and over.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
