as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV
every Thanksgiving, our family watches videos of past holiday gatherings
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Recent Examples of video
Adam Duxter,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
Disney subsidiary 20th Century Studios announced in the past week that The Devil Wears Prada 2 will arrive on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, June 30.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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Noun
In the video, the man and woman can be seen alleging the family stole their money and emphasizing they aren't wanted in the community.
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Adam Duxter,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
Disney subsidiary 20th Century Studios announced in the past week that The Devil Wears Prada 2 will arrive on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, June 30.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Adjective
Gotham City has been popularized by Batman, the superhero comic book launched in 1939 that spawned an IP empire of TV, cinematic and video-game properties.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Dec. 2025
Customers can also pay to upgrade to premium versions of the streaming services, while non-video internet customers will also be able to subscribe to the services through the store.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
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From anecdotes about living on location in the Nevada desert to shopping it around to distributors on videotape, their accounts illuminate the film’s winding path from a gutsy grassroots project to a Sundance hit that changed how lesbian love stories were shown on the big screen.
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Television started out as a live medium, after all — virtually all programs were live in the early, golden age of the small screen before the use of film, and then videotape, allowed for more flexibility.
Adjective
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Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition.
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Swift did indeed attend the wedding, but no photographic evidence of petal flinging has been shared–yet.
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Audience understanding of the uniqueness of the EW&F multi-genre musical mosaic would have been enhanced by a few clinical breakdowns of studio multitrack tapes revealing the sonic and musicological complexities involved.
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Part of a Lauderhill neighborhood is blocked with crime scene tape as police conduct an investigation on Friday, June 26, 2026.
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
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Joe Kramm | Courtesy of Francis Interiors The gold background is a spread of bold graphic lines, undulating shapes and coiling circular motifs, referencing the work of French artist, sculptor and designer Jean Dunand (1877–1942).
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It was coined in Japan in the 1990s for small pictorial symbols used in electronic messaging.
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Each piece spells out a message—happiness, beauty, and magnificence—in the ancient pictorial writing.
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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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