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cassette

[kuh-set, ka-] / kəˈsɛt, kæ- /
NOUN
cartridge
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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The actor and musician Jason Schwartzman pulled a cassette tape from his pocket on stage at the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

"He was so interested in the poet Tony Harrison. So I gave him a lot more material, including a cassette recording of one of Harrison's latest poems, called V."

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

In 1986, Bruce Pavitt was just a music-loving guy putting out a cassette zine and writing a column in Seattle’s bi-weekly music paper, “The Rocket.”

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

A lively, talkative little girl, she spoke fluent Korean at the time, and her adoptive father recorded her on a cassette that then sat gathering dust for years.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

The shoe box was filled with stacks of cassette tapes, each in its own clear plastic case.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

Somewhere in the bowels of my music collection hides 1985’s George Clinton-produced “Freaky Styley” and 1987’s “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” on crumbling cassettes.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

It’s easy to forget that when cassettes debuted in the mid-1960s, the technology was groundbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

He’s just old enough to remember cassettes as a child: “My mom had books on tape like ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ but I wasn’t out buying tapes.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Vishal Kalita's collection of music cassettes has turned his residence in India's Assam state into a private museum.

From BBC Oct. 26, 2025

There was Ruth, lying on her side across my rug, peering at the spines of the cassettes in the low light, and then the Judy Bridgewater tape was in her hands.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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