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
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
In October 2010, nine boxes of paperwork and audio tapes were removed from the paper’s newsroom.
—Nick Davies, Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
Nichiden Kogyo’s Music Box was a 30-centimeter cube with slots to insert four 8-track tapes on the top panel, with control buttons to play, stop, or skip to the next song.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
There are no wedding photos of them, no concert tickets, no mix tapes.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
The fact these tapes survived the 2011 house fire that destroyed a portion of the Hüsker Dü archive heightens the rarity of this collection.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 Aug. 2025
To that end, football coaches exchange game tapes six days before games.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Still, with pages and pages of documents and tapes to download from the Department of Justice site, and comb over and to listen to for details, Maxwell’s see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil declarations quickly dominated an already busy news cycle.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
His first exposure to the sport’s elite was via VHS tapes played by his teams’ coaches on bus trips to away games, often recordings of matches from past World Cups.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
No real effort is made to stop audio bootleggers, and pristine tapes of these shows have emerged, but the video documentation is scattershot and borderline unwatchable since the rule-breakers are often miles from the stage and forced to film at covert angles.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
In October 2010, nine boxes of paperwork and audio tapes were removed from the paper’s newsroom.
—Nick Davies, Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
Nichiden Kogyo’s Music Box was a 30-centimeter cube with slots to insert four 8-track tapes on the top panel, with control buttons to play, stop, or skip to the next song.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
There are no wedding photos of them, no concert tickets, no mix tapes.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
The fact these tapes survived the 2011 house fire that destroyed a portion of the Hüsker Dü archive heightens the rarity of this collection.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 Aug. 2025
To that end, football coaches exchange game tapes six days before games.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Still, with pages and pages of documents and tapes to download from the Department of Justice site, and comb over and to listen to for details, Maxwell’s see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil declarations quickly dominated an already busy news cycle.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
His first exposure to the sport’s elite was via VHS tapes played by his teams’ coaches on bus trips to away games, often recordings of matches from past World Cups.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tapes
Noun
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The main use of the internet by these terrorist groups – incentivizing and radicalizing supporters and stoking fear with propaganda – is something bin Laden would have had to do with videotapes played by the news.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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In an era just before the iPhone, well enough Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, Octagon would then upload the videotapes to a website designed to promote the athletes.—
Daniel Kaplan,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
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Local reports and videos shared on social media showed protesters attacking the homes in and around Kathmandu.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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The 6-foot-6 centre who studies Tage Thompson YouTube videos in his spare time could be a dominant junior hockey player this season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Tapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tapes. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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