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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

“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

Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Although I had seen hours of him on videotape, there was something that I still couldn’t abide in his speech.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I had videotapes of a show I did with Norm a few years before he died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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

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

The answer is that when our unconscious engages in thin-slicing, what we are doing is an automated, accelerated unconscious version of what Gottman does with his videotapes and equations.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Two years later, I had my first videotaped film audition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

I videotaped the outside of the store and then started working my way down the street.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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

“A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2024

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

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

The Saudi fan noise mushroomed again, and anyone videotaping them from close by might have felt some nonalcoholic beer drizzle down onto the cheeks.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

I never thought about writing poetry before, but Mr. Ward said he’s going to start videotaping our Friday sessions.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes


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