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tape

[tayp] / teɪp /
NOUN
ribbon of material
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VERB
record sounds, sights
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"Its all the same: the same piano feel, the same microphone placement, the same tape machine, has been used on every single one of these tracks."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

If you want to hear what passes for rigor in Weiss’ newsroom, the tape is available.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The process “might be difficult if you haven’t spent much time with a tape measure and screwdriver,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Bass said she has cut red tape to ensure that Palisades residents can rebuild their homes, and apologized for being gone when the blaze broke out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The statute defines “videotape service provider” to include any person in the business of delivering “prerecorded video cassette tapes or similar audio visual materials.”

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

The detectives brought the bags of tapes into the room where Bayoumi was being questioned - and some of the footage was played to him.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

As part of his prep work, Hunnam tried to obtain the tapes from an interview conducted with Gein soon after his arrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

I ping-ponged from soft cheeses to eggs and squash, then past a gelato cart and a table crowded with jams, pepper jellies and a milk carton filled with VHS tapes.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

“That Woolworth’s shop earlier, it had all these tapes, so I thought they were bound to have yours. But I don’t think they did.”

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

I taped over pictures of myself and put away anything with personal information, so that Tau Robotics’ bipedal robots wouldn’t collect any identifying data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

There was a small kitchen, with a sign taped to the fridge: “Please clean up after yourself no maid service here!!!”

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Mr. Adams had also been struck by the fliers taped up around New York in which relatives and friends of the missing at the World Trade Center sought information about their loved ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

My mom taped it when it first aired on cable a couple of years later and since it was based on a beloved board game, I was invested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

I carefully taped it into my journal for added inspiration.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

When “The Kelly Clarkson” show entered its fifth season in 2023, it began taping in New York City, prompting the singer and her two kids to move to the Big Apple.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The couple began a TV ministry together in 2003 and in 2008 they began taping The Jim Bakker Show.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It is planning a party in the Meatpacking District, and will partner with the “Adults” actor Owen Thiele to host a branded live taping of a podcast episode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Before the taping, “The Terminal Crew of Dudes” performed the show together twice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

I tell myself that as long as I keep taping my progress reports, nothing will be lost; the record will be complete.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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