tape
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The government hopes to replicate that elsewhere, with a music plan that aims to provide mentoring for artists and promoters, as well as cutting red tape for music festivals and small venues.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
A small crowd of people gathered behind a cordon of metal barricades and police tape, some of them in their pyjamas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
He then chucked the tape into the audience, a piece of film history that hopefully someone caught unscathed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
I put tape on some of the many buttons in order to locate them by touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
I looked at Dad’s boot to make sure the duct tape was holding up.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
This includes documents, artwork, tapes, storyboards and posters.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
His dumb derring-do went viral on VHS tapes, earning him an MTV show and five feature films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I remember tipping the clerk at the local video store to “reserve” the tapes — they were always stolen or otherwise “lost” and never returned.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
I also watched a lot of movies on VHS tapes and surfed some of the world’s biggest waves along the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
When we weren’t in the kitchen, we were in my room watching the parades and bowl games and tapes.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Inside the press box, Heinz logos on ketchup bottles have been taped over.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
At one Paris school on Tuesday, parents taped survival blankets to windows to lower the temperature inside and pooled their money to buy shades for the playground.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
She picked up tables, taped down tablecloths and moved boxes to the side of the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Smaug the dragon from “The Hobbit” made a special taped appearance, because why not?
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
“The water’s missing, and the plastic’s been taped back together, but it seems to fit in with the decor.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Photographs shared online show some of them taping up windows and draping windproof nets across their homes and shops.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Most courts say this exception only applies only to taping for criminal investigations,” Seager said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
That WWE ring sees unexpected action late Sunday afternoon, while MMA fighter and professional annoying person Logan Paul is taping an especially irritating episode of his Impaulsive podcast.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
He finished taping the bandage back over my eye.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
