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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

The scene rewound and repeated, until she called “take five” again.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

She sat with her hands out like paddles while I unwound the skeins and rewound them into a ball.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly