as in videos
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
Tom Freston, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
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
Mostly videotapes of shows, but also albums and books.
—Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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
Noun
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
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
Mostly videotapes of shows, but also albums and books.
—Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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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Numerous reports and videos of thundersnow in downtown Chicago began to roll in after midnight local time.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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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,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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There’s even some cassette tapes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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These tapes are gonna be used to essentially keep his story going.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Videotapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videotapes. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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