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tape

[teyp] / teɪp /
NOUN
ribbon of material
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VERB
record sounds, sights
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It even mentions tests on concealing a device inside a tape recorder.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Thompson got permission from Mizuhara to tape the call and it remains the only interview he has given.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

German carmakers have long complained of high costs and onerous red tape while critics contend the companies themselves need to restructure and improve how they are run.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Bagdasarian’s father, Ross Bagdasarian Sr., who went by the stage name David Seville, invented the musical trio in 1958 after speeding up his voice to achieve a higher pitch using a $200 tape recorder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The tape began in the middle of an interview with Mom.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

In May, his personal lawyers sued the justice department in an effort to keep the tapes private, but after legal defeats they dropped their lawsuit.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

“Happy Birthday” was recorded almost entirely on four-track cassette tapes, while “Fire From the Hip” uses 24-track reel-to-reel.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

This includes documents, artwork, tapes, storyboards and posters.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Those tapes reveal the inner workings of a fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

But I hadn't seen them taking any real steps—like making some tapes and calling up a radio station to ask for a few minutes on the air.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

Instead, he found handwritten signs taped to the restaurant’s door: “Rebuild it. This is our home. Don’t change a thing,” recounts Katerina.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

"I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before, and he said it was," Robinson's roommate Lance Twiggs told investigators in the taped interview.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

His nose is too small for oxygen tubes to sit comfortably so doctors have bandaged and taped them into place.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

It was near the auditorium where Jackie Gleason taped his weekly variety show, and his June Taylor Dancers used to come in for lunch.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

The piece of paper that's taped inside my bedroom closet right now?

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

“Why not still play it if you still love it?” he said during a live taping of “The Shop” podcast at Fanatics Fest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Photographs shared online show some of them taping up windows and draping windproof nets across their homes and shops.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Maniscalco pulls audiences in with contortionist levels of body language that he uses to demonstrate his observations of absurd human behavior, from splitting dinner tabs with Venmo to taping our mouths shut for sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Many breathed a sign of relief: Khan and TED “share so many values,” Anderson says at a mid-conference podcast taping.

From Slate May 8, 2026

Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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