tape recording

Definition of tape recordingnext
as in video
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV the documentary included a tape recording of one of the actor's earliest performances

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Recent Examples of tape recording Dowd spent a month with her brother’s team as research and worked from tape recordings sent by Ned and his teammates to craft the dialogue in her slice-of-life screenplay. Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025 In July, the DOJ released a tape recording of the camera in his prison cell leading to allegations there were some missing minutes, three according to an examination of the metadata by Wired. Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025 In the doc, interviews with Kinkade’s family, including his four daughters and ex-wife, archival home videos and tape recordings, as well as dark paintings from his early career, help to shed light on the man behind the brand. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025 What ultimately seems far more intriguing and indisputable is that Joule has tape recordings of conversations with Bacon about a range of topics. The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tape recording
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Noun
  • Otwell was referring to the dashcam video belonging to the cruiser, driven by Cpl.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Despite this happening 30 years ago, the video still stays alive.
    Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • When videotape arrived, many predicted that watching movies at home would damage theatres.
    Cory Jacobson, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Armed with just two open-reel videotapes, Goodman lugged his hulking camera and tripod behind percussionist Juma Sultan and began to document Hendrix’s historic set just 15 feet away from the musician.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But the full game tape shows those are few and far between — his hesitation and questionable decisions make the lowlights a near-constant.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Then, in a famous 1937 paper, the mathematician Alan Turing devised a model based on hypothetical machines that could read and write symbols printed on an infinite tape according to a set of simple rules.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Tape recording.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape%20recording. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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