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tapes
  • plural of tape.
  • present tense form of tape (3rd person singular).

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Tapes are back in fashion for a growing number of millennials and zoomers, especially in Los Angeles, who are hitting rewind on the format’s presumed extinction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

In 1981, their group won the inaugural Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival, for their production of The Cellar Tapes.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

Later, he will broadcast "The Lost Lennon Tapes," an overview of Lennon’s unreleased recordings, as well as Mintz’s finest contribution to our understanding of the ex-Beatle’s creative legacy.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Some exciting news: It appears we have McConnell Tapes.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2024

Shell-fish form an important article of diet to both the Chinese and the aborigines along the coast—a species of Cyrena, a species of Tapes, Cytheraea petechiana and Modiola teres being most abundant.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various