videotape
Americannoun
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videotapes
plural
verb (used with object)
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videotapes,
present (3rd person singular)
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videotaped,
past participle, past
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videotaping
present participle
Other Word Forms
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Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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videotapesimple
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videotapessimple
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have videotapedperfect
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has videotapedperfect
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am videotapingprogressive
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are videotapingprogressive
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is videotapingprogressive
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have been videotapingperfect progressive
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has been videotapingperfect progressive
Past
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videotapedsimple
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had videotapedperfect
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was videotapingprogressive
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were videotapingprogressive
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had been videotapingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of videotape
Example Sentences
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In the early 80s, Grampian became the first UK regional TV company to gather the day's news footage on videotape - ending the need to spend hours developing and processing film.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
The secretly shared videotape was so satisfying that people literally died watching it, so frozen in their bliss that they forgot about their own human needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Authentic videotape from that time and the shallow, kitschy music take you back to the time of the “Me Generation” and every low-brow cliché of the 70s through the Reagan years.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2024
Around the corner, in the great room, a videotape of a Florida Gators football game was playing on a big- screen TV.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
In 1987, Mr. Birney’s Conor is a happy nerd, comfortably living alone in a small Baltimore house with a shelf of videotapes and other amusements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
A collection of videotapes that was yet to be moved to an archive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
We spent hours on the phone, and he shared old videotapes and other materials.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
He resigned just as he was starting a third term and fled the country in disgrace after leaked videotapes showed his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing lawmakers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
The answer is that when our unconscious engages in thin-slicing, what we are doing is an automated, accelerated unconscious version of what Gottman does with his videotapes and equations.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Two years later, I had my first videotaped film audition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Allan initially appeared willing to engage, but grew irate when he realized he was being videotaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
“I refuse to have us videotaped throwing someone to the ground while they have a child in their hands,” one ICE agent told a police officer at the scene.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
At least three of her so-called friends had even videotaped the show, and one of them stopped by after dinner to drop off the cassette.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
Under the First Amendment, anyone in the U.S. has the right to engage in peaceful protest, which can include yelling, using profane language, videotaping officers and following them in a car, legal experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
I also remember videotaping one medic’s baby daughter before we returned to deploy with the unit into Iraq.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Lipman-Stern first met Pespas while working at a telemarketing firm as a teenager in the early 2000s, videotaping the wild goings-on in the office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
He went 5-17 the rest of the way in Denver, with the last straw appearing to be a Spygate-like videotaping scandal that earned McDaniels and the team separate fines from the league.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
I never thought about writing poetry before, but Mr. Ward said he’s going to start videotaping our Friday sessions.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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