as in video
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
watched a videotape of her daughter's first ballet recital
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Recent Examples of videotape
Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Good luck getting the unsettling videotape footage out of your head.
—EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
The sessions are alleged to included male and female prostitutes, drug use, threats of violence and imprisonment in the hotel rooms where the acts were staged and videotaped.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 May 2025
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Noun
But the regulators found no documentation of hospital employees interviewed, no interview details and no documentation of a videotape review.
—Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Good luck getting the unsettling videotape footage out of your head.
—EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
The police first learned of suspicious behavior from an April 7 call that led them to an 11-year-old boy who said that an unknown man had videotaped him in a restroom.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
The sessions are alleged to included male and female prostitutes, drug use, threats of violence and imprisonment in the hotel rooms where the acts were staged and videotaped.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for videotape
Noun
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Images and video showed passengers evacuating the aircraft and standing on the wings of the plane.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2025
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Its current sanctuary, complete with state-of-the-art sound and video systems, can hold half its 8,000 members at a time at its campus in Lochearn.—
Jonathan M. Pitts,
Baltimore Sun,
6 June 2025
Verb
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After filming, Skarsgård, Chris and Paul got together in Stockholm, New York and Los Angeles for several recording sessions to try out different versions of the voice-over lines.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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Despite the change in his health, Dane has continued working, returning to filming season 3 of Euphoria just days after sharing his personal update.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
13 June 2025
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Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping To Pimp a Butterfly reenters at No. 5 on Top Album Sales (11,000; up 639%) after a 10th anniversary reissue on multiple vinyl variants, as well as a cassette tape.—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
12 June 2025
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Stock image of a woman removing tape from the edge of a floor during a renovation.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Videotape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videotape. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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