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cassette

[kuh-set, ka-] / kəˈsɛt, kæ- /
NOUN
cartridge
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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"Dad labelled everything, recorded everything and backed it all up to cassette, over and over," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Busby entrusted Mr. Mindte with 60 hours of cassette tapes of autobiographical ramblings, which enliven a narrative that gets dry in stretches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Happy Birthday” was recorded almost entirely on four-track cassette tapes, while “Fire From the Hip” uses 24-track reel-to-reel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

In 1986, Bruce Pavitt was just a music-loving guy putting out a cassette zine and writing a column in Seattle’s bi-weekly music paper, “The Rocket.”

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

He already knew Eloise—aka Gibby’s 1987 red Toyota Corolla that had a cassette tape jammed in the player.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Somewhere in the bowels of my music collection hides 1985’s George Clinton-produced “Freaky Styley” and 1987’s “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” on crumbling cassettes.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Director Spike Lee, with wife Tonya Lewis Lee, showed his distinctive style with a suit featuring a purple fedora hat and matching bow tie, and a bag made of silver cassettes.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

His library task was to dub every LP in the collection onto cassettes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

A doting Duran Duran-loving sister helped, as did his father’s jazz fusion cassettes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

On the morning that we left for Mattru Jong, we loaded our backpacks with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah




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