turn the clock back
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For conservationists, the ferocious Franklin fire and other recent blazes raise a burning question: Is it possible to break this feedback loop and turn the clock back on an increasingly flammable ecosystem?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024
But if you turn the clock back 25 years the landscape looked very different.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2023
We can’t turn the clock back, and I think they’ll do the right thing.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2023
To understand the origins of the Yorkshire pudding Christmas dinner debate, we need to turn the clock back to the time when the original pudding was first created.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022
“Well, next time maybe you can join me,” he said, leaning over to brush a kiss on her forehead, as if that would suddenly turn the clock back two hours.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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