tape recorder

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Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

“Kissinger” teases viewers with an animated credit sequence prominently featuring a tape recorder.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

"Don't know if I'm really wanting the fame / Something tells me I'm a bit smarter than that," she sang into her tape recorder.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Gone are the days of describing students into a tape recorder.

From Slate • May 27, 2025

I owe this progress report to Burt who had the bright idea that I could dictate this on a transistor tape recorder and have a public stenographer in Chicago type it up.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes