as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
every Thanksgiving, our family watches videos of past holiday gatherings
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Recent Examples of video
Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
Under The Radar sports media, which for years has shot videos for YouTube and been involved in 11-man football competitions, is sponsoring a flag football team gaining attention for its success this year.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Levin regularly speaks directly to the camera in TMZ’s video segments, breaking down the developments of entertainment-adjacent headlines.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
Under The Radar sports media, which for years has shot videos for YouTube and been involved in 11-man football competitions, is sponsoring a flag football team gaining attention for its success this year.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
Gotham City has been popularized by Batman, the superhero comic book launched in 1939 that spawned an IP empire of TV, cinematic and video-game properties.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
Noun
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How about the videotape evidence showing that Good was veering her car away from the ICE agent?—
James D. Zirin,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The American pilot and his navigator were tried and found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide, but they were later found guilty of obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming of an officer for the destruction of a videotape of the incident.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile Villaroel has argued that lights in the sky that appeared on pre-space-age photographic plates could indicate artificial objects that were in Earth orbit before the launch of humanity’s first satellites.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
20 Feb. 2026
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To do so, the human worker needs to submit photographic evidence.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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As the Bug, the UK producer has made some of the weightiest dub and dancehall ever committed to tape.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
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In February 2024, the actor posted a photo of himself holding a hatchet with pink tape wrapped around the hilt, suggesting some kind of motion-capture gig.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Feb. 2026
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Whereas most computers use CPUs (central processing units) to perform the majority of their computations, the specialized GPUs (graphical processing units) and TPUs (tensor processing units) used in AI data centers use several times as much energy per computer as a standard CPU would.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Crawford famously posed for Playboy back in 1988, appearing in a black-and-white pictorial shot by Herb Ritts.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
20 Feb. 2026
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The film’s pictorial expression remains under the top.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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