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cassette

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


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More recently, Schwartzman said, “I was at my mom’s house tying my shoe, and I see a cassette tape on the ground titled ‘Rushmore songs’.”

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

An Ustad Sarahang ghazal blared from a cassette player.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Cody couldn’t get enough of the goings-on at the station when the two would stop by to drop off cassettes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

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

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

She also reuses the old cards to new ones and has let go of old cassettes and CDs.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2026

One of the men told the chief that the only way we could possess such foreign cassettes was either by having looted them or if we were mercenaries.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah




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