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rewind

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


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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

It was also possible to rewind livestreams from the start, and download archived clips.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

She wanted to rewind the last hour and do it all over again.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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

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

Slouching on a couch, Hesme cuts a grave figure as she rewinds a video: the message Hamlet receives from her murdered father, here projected on a large scrim.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

"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

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

She said during one recent performance a man came up behind her and started rewinding one of the decks.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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

For some at the tape event, rewinding to another time is more than a hobby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

I suppose I should back up here, rewinding us through the heavy heat of that summer, through the disorienting haze of those long months after my father died.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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