as in videotapes
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 videos
Numerous reports and videos of thundersnow in downtown Chicago began to roll in after midnight local time.
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Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
Scott David Mason, 61, was accused of distributing photos and videos 50 times using the messaging app Kik between March 28 and May 1.
—Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
The Real Disaster Channel was playing in the background, on mute, showing videos of plane crashes, until the TV eventually kicked into a screen saver of a fish tank.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Two other videos showed the newlyweds dancing with guests at the reception.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
The results have shocked social-media users, and the videos have amassed views by the million.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Due to a nationwide internet shutdown it's been difficult to get information from the ground, but videos circulated by rights groups show piles of corpses and young protesters with bullet wounds.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
One of these videos gained over 291,000 views and dozens of glowing comments claiming the software worked perfectly.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The removal of Spears' Instagram account comes after years of public concern and defense over her social media presence, in which the pop star has been seen posting dance videos (including with knives), sometimes with unintelligible and bizarre captions.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
Scott David Mason, 61, was accused of distributing photos and videos 50 times using the messaging app Kik between March 28 and May 1.
—Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
The Real Disaster Channel was playing in the background, on mute, showing videos of plane crashes, until the TV eventually kicked into a screen saver of a fish tank.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Two other videos showed the newlyweds dancing with guests at the reception.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
The results have shocked social-media users, and the videos have amassed views by the million.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Due to a nationwide internet shutdown it's been difficult to get information from the ground, but videos circulated by rights groups show piles of corpses and young protesters with bullet wounds.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
One of these videos gained over 291,000 views and dozens of glowing comments claiming the software worked perfectly.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The removal of Spears' Instagram account comes after years of public concern and defense over her social media presence, in which the pop star has been seen posting dance videos (including with knives), sometimes with unintelligible and bizarre captions.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for videos
Noun
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Amid towering speakers, gold records, stacks of videotapes, Sony Trinitrons, overflowing ashtrays, and a bar stocked with tequila and a lineup of squat green Dom Pérignon bottles sent over by the labels, the Les Garland Show streamed.—
tom freston,
Vulture,
28 Oct. 2025
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Hunt was a pro tennis pioneer, as well, and the source of that film is a trove of some 600 videotapes of tournaments around the world that reside on shelves inside SubTropolis.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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This was made possible thanks to access granted to documentary filmmaker María José Cuevas to hundreds of tapes recorded by the artist himself from the 1970s until shortly before his death in August 2016.—
Natalia Cano,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
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This requires immensely powerful magnetic fields, which are generated by second-generation high-temperature superconducting tapes.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Videos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videos. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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