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videotape

[vid-ee-oh-teyp] / 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

Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.

From Salon Mar. 15, 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

In her first few viewings of the videotape, Marcia Clark had the gnawing sense that he was lying.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2024

That’s what you would have seen, if I showed you a videotape of our meeting.

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

He said he had taught himself how to read English by looking at videotapes of people like Dave Chappelle and me.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2024

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

From Washington Times Dec. 21, 2023

In fact, fifty years to life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Jurors heard from former OpenAI board members and executives - some in person, others via videotaped sworn depositions - detailing first-hand experiences of Altman allegedly failing to be forthright.

From BBC May 15, 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

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

“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

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

From Seattle Times Dec. 19, 2023

“Yeah, but my dad is videotaping it. And I can arrange it so I get to see the tape, and you don’t. Can’t I?”

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky




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