videotape
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“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
“So just like that, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and it’s on videotape that I’m going to UCLA,” Easley would recall many years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
Any of today’s approaches could easily fail, just as Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“But I think he was right. Just because you made a good videotape doesn’t make you a good person.”
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
One of Braden’s digitized videotapes is of the tennis great Andre Agassi hitting a forehand.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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
Allan initially appeared willing to engage, but grew irate when he realized he was being videotaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
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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
Lipman-Stern first met Pespas while working at a telemarketing firm as a teenager in the early 2000s, videotaping the wild goings-on in the office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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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