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This all remains riveting in part because Isherwood was not just a camera but a tape recorder.
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airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
The big difference for Agents was the invention of affordable multitrack tape recorders.
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
These molecules act like digital tape recorders, repeatedly copying instructions from DNA in the cell nucleus, and carrying them to protein-making structures called ribosomes.
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David Cox, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2020
On his 69th birthday, Krapp, now a lonely man, is ready with a bottle of wine, a banana and his tape recorder.
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Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1932, in the meaning defined above
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“Tape recorder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tape%20recorder. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
tape recorder
noun
: a device for recording on and playing back magnetic tapes
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Nglish: Translation of tape recorder for Spanish Speakers
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