as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
the rival campaign leaked a tape of the senator angrily reprimanding a little boy for stepping on his foot
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Recent Examples of tape
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
may 15, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
Hockey tape was being balled up and tossed.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026
Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
Morning Star was recorded straight to tape on a Portastudio in Stockholm and Marchenko’s current home of Berlin, cloaking everything in a thin mist of hiss.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The handles of knives on the magnetic wall strip were covered in tape.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
may 15, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
Hockey tape was being balled up and tossed.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026
Verb
Voiceover artists, who don’t own their own sound studios, need to tape when ambient noise is at a minimum.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
Morning Star was recorded straight to tape on a Portastudio in Stockholm and Marchenko’s current home of Berlin, cloaking everything in a thin mist of hiss.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tape
Noun
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His film Ring, directed by Hideo Nakata, centered on a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching it.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Nothing gets Trump angrier than when one of his underlings is caught doing something stupid on videotape.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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As part of the effort, the two roped in Sessions, who later tried to broker a meeting for Rodríguez with the CEO of ExxonMobil that had succeeded Trump’s then-secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The legal dispute has managed to rope in a host of celebrity names, some who might be dragged into court to testify.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The home run, Montgomery’s 13th, stood after a video review.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2026
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Your browser does not support the video tag.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
Verb
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Return cupcakes to wire rack and let sit 15 minutes for glaze to set before serving (or, chill 5 minutes).—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Apr. 2026
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The text messages allegedly asked McClelland's brother to wire McClelland more than $8,000, per prosecutors.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Both players had their heads bandaged and were substituted, for Chris Wood and Filip Jorgenson, after a stoppage of around five minutes.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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Paramedics bandaged and dressed the boy's wounds as Caprio learned another child was also bleeding lower on the steps.—
Ricky Sayer,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
Verb
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Some come out the other side of illness, but most loop through an unpredictable whirlpool, at times within sight of shore, at other moments spinning back out to sea.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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In the months since the warehouse purchase, DHS has failed to loop Social Circle officials into the planning conversations, the town says.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
Verb
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On day two, hacking teams were no less successful, chaining together three new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange in order to achieve the holy grail of SYSTEM-level remote code execution.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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In response, Thomas Boggs, a drummer for The Box Tops, staged a 48-hour protest, Wilson said, chaining himself to the stage and playing music.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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“Tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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