as in tapes
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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Recent Examples of videotapes
Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
In an era just before the iPhone, well enough Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, Octagon would then upload the videotapes to a website designed to promote the athletes.
—Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
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The main use of the internet by these terrorist groups – incentivizing and radicalizing supporters and stoking fear with propaganda – is something bin Laden would have had to do with videotapes played by the news.
—Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
In an era just before the iPhone, well enough Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, Octagon would then upload the videotapes to a website designed to promote the athletes.
—Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for videotapes
Noun
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No real effort is made to stop audio bootleggers, and pristine tapes of these shows have emerged, but the video documentation is scattershot and borderline unwatchable since the rule-breakers are often miles from the stage and forced to film at covert angles.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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In October 2010, nine boxes of paperwork and audio tapes were removed from the paper’s newsroom.—
Nick Davies,
Air Mail,
30 Aug. 2025
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Local reports and videos shared on social media showed protesters attacking the homes in and around Kathmandu.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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The 6-foot-6 centre who studies Tage Thompson YouTube videos in his spare time could be a dominant junior hockey player this season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Videotapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videotapes. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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