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
Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
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
Verb
For a brief period, RCA VideoDiscs shared the shelves with videotapes, but usually only at independent shops and never with as many titles available.
—Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
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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According to Bush, hundreds of outtake tapes from the show remain in Burnett’s possession.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In an age where so many people educate themselves simply by watching hours of tennis serves or cooking videos on YouTube, the CLA fits the paradigm shift of empowering the individual to shape their direction.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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And thanks to social media videos of their head-tilting, leg waggling antics, these web-slingers are in high demand.—
Alina Hartounian,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Videotapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videotapes. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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