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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

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

It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.

From Salon Oct. 12, 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

Have you ever seen the videotape of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

But there is an instructional set of videotapes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2024

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

From Washington Times Dec. 21, 2023

He resigned just as he was starting a third term and fled the country in disgrace after leaked videotapes showed his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing lawmakers.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2023

“What you planning to do with all them videotapes you’re making?”

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

He was spending much more time organising religious activities in the Muslim community, which he often videotaped.

From BBC Aug. 29, 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

Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 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

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

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

But the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York City-based group that focuses on privacy and civil rights, called the videotaping “highly concerning” and that attendees were being surveilled without their consent.

From Seattle Times Jan. 23, 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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