as in video
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
a vid of the pop star performing her latest hit single
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This tiny camera captures 1080p video, delivers color night vids, can detect people and vehicles and send appropriate notifications, and even works with Alexa and Google Assistant.
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Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
As São Paulo State and Brazil at large gears up its funding for film, TV, vid games and beyond, there is a distinct possibility that Brazil’s Congress will approve this year a global streamer investment quota for Brazilian films and series.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
Her behavior in the vid is anything but demure, deliberately proving the point.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Highlights from the second video, when the track was wet, are beneath both vids.
2:02 – Hyundai hits the e-stop when the car appears to miss the center line and veer off to the side of the road.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2014
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Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
As São Paulo State and Brazil at large gears up its funding for film, TV, vid games and beyond, there is a distinct possibility that Brazil’s Congress will approve this year a global streamer investment quota for Brazilian films and series.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
Her behavior in the vid is anything but demure, deliberately proving the point.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Highlights from the second video, when the track was wet, are beneath both vids.
2:02 – Hyundai hits the e-stop when the car appears to miss the center line and veer off to the side of the road.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vid
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In analyzing dozens of hours of audio and video footage of public and private speaking events for McMahon’s appointees, as well as their writings, ProPublica found that a recurring theme is the desire to enable more families to leave public schools.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
8 Oct. 2025
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Grant Lancaster,
Arkansas Online,
8 Oct. 2025
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If earlier iterations of the lesbian vampire film were Gothic and ornate, Nadja is more shoegaze, captured on bleary black-and-white videotape with an expressionistic flair.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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What thinly passes for a story here is just license to exploit the jagged texture, edges, and imperfections of videotape (the short is set in 1992 and really looks it) and to assault viewers with prolonged glimpses of adolescent distress.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Vid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vid. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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