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
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
Here, present-day students rewind old audio tapes to hear a band of underground revolutionaries risk their necks for a better tomorrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
He ran his fingers along the face of it, the knobs like eyes, the row of buttons—play, stop, rewind, pause, fast-forward, eject—like teeth.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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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
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
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
“Pamela, a Love Story” powerfully rewinds Pamela Anderson’s life and fame.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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
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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
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
"Nas," Duncan said as he rewound tape, "Nas."
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
The scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 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
But right then, Colin pulled the minirecorder out of his pocket and rewound it.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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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
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
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
But then “Burning Love” came on, and he didn’t stop rewinding the tape until it was time to pick Luke up for school.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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