as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
the rival campaign leaked a tape of the senator angrily reprimanding a little boy for stepping on his foot
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Recent Examples of tape
Ana Maria Soler,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
By the time the two relented, the album’s master tapes had been lost.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 July 2026
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
Voiceover artists, who don’t own their own sound studios, need to tape when ambient noise is at a minimum.
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Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Witnesses expressed shock over the incident, with one man arriving to his Walmart to shop and finding the parking lot covered in crime scene tape.
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Ana Maria Soler,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
By the time the two relented, the album’s master tapes had been lost.
—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 July 2026
Verb
Silver, learning from Stern—who brought the NBA from a league where fans would tape delay the finals to a $5-billion-a-year global industry—took that leadership to another level.
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Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
Voiceover artists, who don’t own their own sound studios, need to tape when ambient noise is at a minimum.
—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tape
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Not long after the revolution, bootleg audio and videotapes began circulating in Tehran.
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From anecdotes about living on location in the Nevada desert to shopping it around to distributors on videotape, their accounts illuminate the film’s winding path from a gutsy grassroots project to a Sundance hit that changed how lesbian love stories were shown on the big screen.
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Climbers who rope up together learn from one another, with no strict hierarchy.
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Some of those startups started in the San Francisco Bay area, where AI dating apps are hosting parties, speed dating, coffee meet-ups and other in-person events to rope people into using their new service.
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According to local authorities, the couple filmed a TikTok video inside a car one night in March.
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Seedance costs $9 per minute for video with audio generation, significantly lower than the $24 per minute required by Google’s Veo model.
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The Colorado Avalanche entered the Western Conference final with an aura of near invincibility after leading the NHL wire to wire, and cruising through the first two rounds in just nine games.
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That hormones shape our moods and feelings, wire our brains and guide numerous, diverse processes throughout the body means that the practice of endocrinology is not based around any particular organ.
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Pino is seen in the footage shirtless, in shorts and with his head bandaged.
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Trump has frequently appeared in public throughout his second term with visible bruising on his hands, which have sometimes been bandaged.
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As a result, technical discovery and objection handling have often depended on the individual AE’s knowledge or their ability to loop in an SE after the fact.
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Wear this style in your hair with a linen dress, tie it around your neck to elevate a simple tank, or loop it onto your bag for an easy accent.
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Denver's Centennial Gardens abruptly closed over a year ago, and the gates have been chained ever since, leaving residents with questions like why and what's next.
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However, HubSpot Marketing Hub protects its system performance by enforcing a strict 100-action limit per workflow, which required me to chain multiple workflows together for highly complex setups.
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“Tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tape. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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