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
On the first day of his trial, May 3, 1976, prosecutors won the right to introduce a tape recording of his station-house confession.
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
By retirement in 1986, Burger had written more than 250 decisions, including the 1974 opinion in U.S. v. Nixon that required the president to surrender subpoenaed tape recordings and documents for use in his impeachment trial.
—The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2024
The Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that then-President Richard Nixon had to turn over tape recordings to a special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
These include covers of the National Enquirer, agreements, texts, emails, telephone call records, videos and the Trump/Cohen tape recording.
—Nick Akerman, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
By retirement in 1986, Burger had written more than 250 decisions, including the 1974 opinion in U.S. v. Nixon that required the president to surrender subpoenaed tape recordings and documents for use in his impeachment trial.
—The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2024
The Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that then-President Richard Nixon had to turn over tape recordings to a special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
These include covers of the National Enquirer, agreements, texts, emails, telephone call records, videos and the Trump/Cohen tape recording.
—Nick Akerman, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tape recording
Noun
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Then, with an in-arena announcement after a video review, the Tigers were bumped up to third, finishing in front of Utah.—
Henry Chappell,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
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Other gunmen drove over the bodies of those killed in the street, videos verified by The Times show.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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While paper documents are the most common source of classified information, photographs, maps, motion pictures, videotapes, databases, microfilms, hard drives, CDs and more can be classified.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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The bank sold off the show’s collection of 8,000 one-inch videotapes to a company in Oklahoma.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
9 Dec. 2024
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Eventually the band banter established that the song might’ve been deemed tricky due to having too many chords, which led to a recollection of Wiedlin having once put tape markers on her guitar as cheats.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Kind of felt like slow motion, got his head up and put it on my tape.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Tape recording.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape%20recording. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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