rewind
Example Sentences
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We can’t rewind the tape without the war to see if its warning was valid.
I wish I could rewind to last weekend so I could study even harder, stay even more focused, refuse to take a break when Mom insisted.
From Literature
This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.
From Los Angeles Times
For a preview of what might follow, just rewind the tape.
From Barron's
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
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