Definition of videotapenext
as in video
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV watched a videotape of her daughter's first ballet recital

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videotape

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verb

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Recent Examples of videotape
Noun
Those stories took on new significance when Kennedy pulled out decades-old videotapes documenting their encounters. Maya Santiago, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 What follows is impalement and orgasm in the same instant—one spear through both women, blood passing from Billy’s mouth onto Kris’s upturned face—and when their breathing stops, the hole at the bottom of the lake pushes out a fresh videotape. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
Ultimately four women would talk to Brown and agree to have their interviews videotaped by Michot. Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 May 2026 Police took Kogut to the District Attorney's Office where he was videotaped. Mary Murphy, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for videotape
Recent Examples of Synonyms for videotape
Noun
  • Cell phone video later obtained by media outlets also appeared to conflict with Castro's description of the encounter.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The social media company on Thursday announced several new comment features that will allow people to leave voice messages, vote in polls and share multiple photos under videos.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In preparation for the show, MoMA sent the photographer François-Xavier Gbré on a multination tour to film and shoot new images of the show’s principal buildings, and his footage of La Pyramide is especially poignant.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The men reversed course to flee uphill, one briefly stopping to film before realizing the scale of the danger.
    Laura Saravia, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But the full game tape shows those are few and far between — his hesitation and questionable decisions make the lowlights a near-constant.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Then, in a famous 1937 paper, the mathematician Alan Turing devised a model based on hypothetical machines that could read and write symbols printed on an infinite tape according to a set of simple rules.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Videotape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videotape. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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