as in videos
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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Noun
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There are videos flying around, with or without context; the US government is producing some, promoting others from random X accounts.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
20 Oct. 2025 -
But Ben Colman, the CEO and co-founder of the deepfake detection platform Reality Defender, says that while these videos may be generating jumps in revenue for the platforms, their success may be short-lived.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Hunt was a pro tennis pioneer, as well, and the source of that film is a trove of some 600 videotapes of tournaments around the world that reside on shelves inside SubTropolis.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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Mostly videotapes of shows, but also albums and books.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Armed with their boom boxes and cassette tapes, the boys braved the stench and recorded songs.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Stranger Things speaks to a generation that grew up renting VHS tapes from Blockbuster and trading Stephen King paperbacks.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Tape recordings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape%20recordings. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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