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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

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

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

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

In 1999, he was twenty-two and working as a peddler in lower Manhattan, selling videotapes and socks and gloves from the sidewalk along Fourteenth Street.

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

Freeman declined to discuss the claim beyond her videotaped statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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

He videotaped me telling him what everything was about.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

She was particularly concerned when her favorite show, “Armchair Expert,” started videotaping interviews.

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

“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

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

“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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