as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
every Thanksgiving, our family watches videos of past holiday gatherings
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Recent Examples of video
Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Since going public, Hunt has shared numerous photos and videos of the couple — and the two families together — on her social media.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2026
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
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Noun
At first, the video feed showed little more than brown mud pockmarked by burrowing worms and snails.
—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Since going public, Hunt has shared numerous photos and videos of the couple — and the two families together — on her social media.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Gotham City has been popularized by Batman, the superhero comic book launched in 1939 that spawned an IP empire of TV, cinematic and video-game properties.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
Noun
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Back in the 1960s, there wasn't a home video market, and videotape was expensive, so it was erased for reuse.—
Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Set in the ’90s, the game tasks players with such activities as stocking shelves, manning the checkout counter, and balancing the daily books; sometimes a videotape needs to be rewound, or a patron disputes a late fee.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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At least, that’s what some people are saying, in a photographic meme that’s been spreading around the internet for years and refuses to die.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Before joining the team in 2023, Stephen managed the photographic archive for multimedia publisher Future, working on everything from picture editing and content licensing to directing photo shoots.—
Stephen Kelly,
TheWeek,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There, an officer ushered her under yellow tape.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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The album, sourced from the record's original analog master tapes, was reissued in both vinyl and CD form in September.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Kelly Brant,
Arkansas Online,
31 Mar. 2026
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Currently, creating those graphic depictions of children is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Japanese cultural arts and crafts vendors, a pictorial timeline of Cupertino’s 47-year sister city relationship with Toyokawa, and Shogi instruction and demonstration will be grouped at the Japanese Artisan Pavilion, located at the Cupertino Senior Center.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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