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rewind

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


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"If I could have one day back, I would rewind to that day," Owen later said.

From BBC May 15, 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

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

I want to push Stop on the Walkman and rewind their whole conversation.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

“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

If a viewer rewinds during this part, Netflix wants to know why.

From Salon Jan. 25, 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

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

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

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

Ekman rewound the tape and replayed it in slow motion.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

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

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

She had just dropped a ball of wool and was carefully rewinding the end of it.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie



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