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videotape

[vid-ee-oh-tayp] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌteɪp /


NOUN
videocassette
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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

The judges ruled that “compelling and coherent evidence,” including a videotape in which Abd-Al-Rahman says he is Ali Kushayb, showed that he was the militia leader in question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

“Adriana was afraid that, since there was nothing in the contract about videotape back when she did the voice and ‘Snow White’ was about to come out on videotape,” recalled Woodman.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

But if you had taken that videotape and slowed it down, until you were looking at our interaction in slices of a fraction of a second, you would have seen something quite different.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

In 1987, Mr. Birney’s Conor is a happy nerd, comfortably living alone in a small Baltimore house with a shelf of videotapes and other amusements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Two dozen works are on view, including sculptures, installations, videotapes, drawings and prints, plus the artist’s book “LAAir,” featuring 10 full-page color photographs said to show the city’s famous smog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025

We spent hours on the phone, and he shared old videotapes and other materials.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

One of Braden’s digitized videotapes is of the tennis great Andre Agassi hitting a forehand.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Allan initially appeared willing to engage, but grew irate when he realized he was being videotaped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

“I refuse to have us videotaped throwing someone to the ground while they have a child in their hands,” one ICE agent told a police officer at the scene.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

At least three of her so-called friends had even videotaped the show, and one of them stopped by after dinner to drop off the cassette.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Under the First Amendment, anyone in the U.S. has the right to engage in peaceful protest, which can include yelling, using profane language, videotaping officers and following them in a car, legal experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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

Partners has a strict policy against videotaping “because it could reveal proprietary processes,” the lawsuit said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

“They were videotaping us and so several of us were videotaping them,” said an attendee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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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