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tape recording

noun

Definition of tape recording

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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Social media video posts showed the shirtless Disneyland employee leisurely floating on his back in the Rivers of America near the River Belle Terrace restaurant.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 July 2026
Other Chiefs spouses visit camp, too, as do WAGS across the league — some have posted videos of their training camp visits on social media.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026

Definition of video

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Its frame story involves a crime-busting couple who, while searching for a missing coed, must view a variety of videotapes.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
The previous game’s all-star cast returned, but now Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and the rest were performing not on videotape in front of digital backgrounds but on 35mm film stock and enormous real sets—lots of enormous real sets.

— Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026

Definition of videotape

Noun

Some players preferred their shoulder pads to cling more snugly to their jersey, so Ryan applied double-sided tape to both.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
In other words, the governor of the strategically important border state of Baja California was just caught on tape offering to become an FBI informant.

— Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

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