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
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
Hang up immediately Government agencies do not typically call or request video chats to discuss serious legal matters or investigations.
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Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 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.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Spain's National Police shared video of the June 30 raid on social media on Thursday, July 2, showing officers entering the rural property in the municipality of Malagón, in the province of Ciudad Real.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
Hang up immediately Government agencies do not typically call or request video chats to discuss serious legal matters or investigations.
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Ella Moore
july 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 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.
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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.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
Noun
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Not long after the revolution, bootleg audio and videotapes began circulating in Tehran.
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From anecdotes about living on location in the Nevada desert to shopping it around to distributors on videotape, their accounts illuminate the film’s winding path from a gutsy grassroots project to a Sundance hit that changed how lesbian love stories were shown on the big screen.
Adjective
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Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition.
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Swift did indeed attend the wedding, but no photographic evidence of petal flinging has been shared–yet.
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Audience understanding of the uniqueness of the EW&F multi-genre musical mosaic would have been enhanced by a few clinical breakdowns of studio multitrack tapes revealing the sonic and musicological complexities involved.
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Part of a Lauderhill neighborhood is blocked with crime scene tape as police conduct an investigation on Friday, June 26, 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.
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Joe Kramm | Courtesy of Francis Interiors The gold background is a spread of bold graphic lines, undulating shapes and coiling circular motifs, referencing the work of French artist, sculptor and designer Jean Dunand (1877–1942).
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It was coined in Japan in the 1990s for small pictorial symbols used in electronic messaging.
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Each piece spells out a message—happiness, beauty, and magnificence—in the ancient pictorial writing.
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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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