as in videotapes
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 tapes
Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Pop-up markets celebrate local makers in Ballston, Navy Yard and Columbia Heights, while Rhizome encourages the community to trade their old records, VHS tapes and DVDs for something new.
—Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2026
Once a month, Brian Emerick makes the trip from the Chicago suburbs to Jacobs’ house in the city to pick up 10 or 20 boxes each stuffed with 50 or 100 tapes.
—Christopher Weber, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
That requirement stemmed from Nixon's attempt to destroy the White House tapes that incriminated him in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Once a month, Brian Emerick makes the trip from the Chicago suburbs to Jacobs' house in the city to pick up 10 or 20 boxes each stuffed with 50 or 100 tapes.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Long before the pair got started reimagining one of the web’s most infamous shock tapes for the Independent Film Company (in theaters Friday, April 10), Goldhaber and Mazzei were just two kids living in a community where mass violence was suddenly everywhere.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2026
Cassettes tapes have long been cheap and abundant at thrift stores, though possibly barely playable due to poor storage or handling.
—Shirl Leigh
april 06, New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2026
Except someone did eventually hear it—the good folks at Freedom to Spend, known for reissuing all kinds of wonders from the experimental past, who took it upon themselves to sort through all 1200 tapes submitted to the ND zine over the course of its run before landing upon Larrison’s.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
In the nearly 50 years since it was released, Faces of Death has become something of a cursed object, the kind of movie that gets traded around on old VHS tapes and spoken about in hushed tones on playgrounds and in video stores.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Pop-up markets celebrate local makers in Ballston, Navy Yard and Columbia Heights, while Rhizome encourages the community to trade their old records, VHS tapes and DVDs for something new.
—Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2026
Once a month, Brian Emerick makes the trip from the Chicago suburbs to Jacobs’ house in the city to pick up 10 or 20 boxes each stuffed with 50 or 100 tapes.
—Christopher Weber, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
That requirement stemmed from Nixon's attempt to destroy the White House tapes that incriminated him in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Once a month, Brian Emerick makes the trip from the Chicago suburbs to Jacobs' house in the city to pick up 10 or 20 boxes each stuffed with 50 or 100 tapes.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Long before the pair got started reimagining one of the web’s most infamous shock tapes for the Independent Film Company (in theaters Friday, April 10), Goldhaber and Mazzei were just two kids living in a community where mass violence was suddenly everywhere.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2026
Cassettes tapes have long been cheap and abundant at thrift stores, though possibly barely playable due to poor storage or handling.
—Shirl Leigh
april 06, New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2026
Except someone did eventually hear it—the good folks at Freedom to Spend, known for reissuing all kinds of wonders from the experimental past, who took it upon themselves to sort through all 1200 tapes submitted to the ND zine over the course of its run before landing upon Larrison’s.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tapes
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Within weeks, sales of videotapes, CDs, and audio cassettes of her performance raised more than $500,000 for the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes – relics of a life once fully lived — Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
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In Gulf states, hundreds of people have been arrested or detained for posting videos of strikes and military facilities to social media.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2026
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ShengShu’s latest Vidu Q3 Pro model, released in January, ranks among the top 10 AI models for generating videos from text and images, according to Artificial Analysis.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
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To address this, Ivo uses a multi-step pipeline that chains together more than 400 model calls for each contract review.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Tokyo Central is owned by Japanese company Pan Pacific Retail Management, which also runs the grocery chains Gelson’s and Don Quijote.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
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“Tapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tapes. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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