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
The animals smuggled from Mexico were advertised on social media, with defendants posting photos and videos of the reptiles being captured in the wild.
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Come training camp, videos of Claiborne side-stepping defenders will likely circulate.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 29 May 2026
The Stomp-Clap Song and the Gingerbread Cookie Dance, both released in 2021, had already given them some inkling that videos that taught dances were a potentially popular niche.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
But there is no mention of whether people can ever request that their home cleaning videos be removed from the training datasets for robots.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
In both those cases, the government’s original accounts of the shootings faced scrutiny as videos and witness accounts emerged.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
The videos went viral within hours.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Again, flat is the new up, so maintaining the audience against the lure of online videos, video games and social media is an accomplishment.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
People have started watching videos in a fragmented way.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Come training camp, videos of Claiborne side-stepping defenders will likely circulate.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 29 May 2026
The Stomp-Clap Song and the Gingerbread Cookie Dance, both released in 2021, had already given them some inkling that videos that taught dances were a potentially popular niche.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
But there is no mention of whether people can ever request that their home cleaning videos be removed from the training datasets for robots.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
In both those cases, the government’s original accounts of the shootings faced scrutiny as videos and witness accounts emerged.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
The videos went viral within hours.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Again, flat is the new up, so maintaining the audience against the lure of online videos, video games and social media is an accomplishment.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
People have started watching videos in a fragmented way.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for videos
Noun
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Within weeks, sales of videotapes, CDs, and audio cassettes of her performance raised more than $500,000 for the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes – relics of a life once fully lived — Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In the latter category is the childhood home of Mary (Renate Reinsve), a psychiatrist who confidently expounds her therapeutic philosophy in her sessions with clients and on late-night TV commercials promoting her self-help audio cassette tapes.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2026
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The Tribune on May 1, 1974, became the first news organization to publish the entire 246,000-word transcript of the Watergate tapes, scooping even the government printing office by several hours.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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“Videos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videos. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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