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VCR

NOUN
video cassette recorder
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I still remember sitting in front of the VCR to press the rewind button to rewatch my favorite part — when Wadsworth explains the crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

The VCR was also the leading edge of a cluster of inexpensive consumer electronics in the 1980s that transformed domestic life: the Walkman, answering machines, videogames, video cameras and PCs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

He started in 1988, back when “machine learning” meant teaching your VCR to record “Cheers.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

Then one night, a few weeks after Zalmai turned two, Rasheed came home with a television and a VCR.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini


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