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videotape

[vid-ee-oh-tayp] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌteɪp /


NOUN
videocassette
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If there is a videotape, all the better.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

He scrambled together a videotape, renting out a dungeon batting cage in Manhattan for a throwing session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Wouldn’t it be natural to think that goods or services from a videotape service provider would be video-related services?” asked Justice Clarence Thomas.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

In the early 80s, Grampian became the first UK regional TV company to gather the day's news footage on videotape - ending the need to spend hours developing and processing film.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

My students had been admitted because they could admirably paint or sculpt or videotape their bodies in exhausting detail, and wasn't that enough?

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Four boxes of material, including computers, phones, hard drives and old videotapes were handed to police by Meghan's half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, last week.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

As I watched Sunday’s fights, I kept asking myself: how did we go from stolen VHS videotapes in the 1990s to all this?

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

After production stopped following the 1985 season, the show lived on in syndication, alongside a series of books and videotapes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

A collection of videotapes that was yet to be moved to an archive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

On his first trip to the basement, Gogol sees a table on which other tenants have left things up for grabs: books, videotapes, a white casserole with a clear glass lid.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett ordered Trump to sit for a videotaped deposition to take questions from the BBC’s lawyers by Dec. 11.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Twiggs' videotaped interview with prosecutors was played in July during the hearing.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

After both planes landed in the United Kingdom, Trump was videotaped coming down the steps from the larger jet, before making his way to the new retrofitted Air Force One.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Over the course of his career, Schoenfeld has videotaped countless students as they worked on math problems.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Terry said they started videotaping “Let’s Get Haunted” about a year ago solely to produce short clips to promote the show on TikTok and other platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

I also remember videotaping one medic’s baby daughter before we returned to deploy with the unit into Iraq.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Peer tutors on the platform certify they are qualified for their jobs by scoring at least 90% on the course exam and videotaping themselves explaining how they solved each problem on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

But the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York City-based group that focuses on privacy and civil rights, called the videotaping “highly concerning” and that attendees were being surveilled without their consent.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

A camera goes down with you, though, videotaping your simulated death, so you can take it home and relive those 8.5 seconds in the comfort of your living room.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman


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