wire recording

American  

noun

1. a recording made on a wire recorder.

2. an act or instance of recording on a wire recorder.

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Example Sentences

By June 2024, someone in the circle was cooperating with federal investigators and wearing a wire, recording Williamson’s private conversations, according to transcripts included in the indictment.

From Los Angeles Times

And curators are in talks with Bergh about a new machine he’s developing that can play back wire recording, a midcentury format that captured audio on a thin steel wire.

From New York Times

This scene, after Farrow plays his copy of the wire recording that confirms Gutierrez's story about Weinstein, is typical of the internal road blocks their story met with while it was still in progress:

From Salon

Trump acted in the aftermath of a New York Times report that said Rosenstein reacted to Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey in May of last year by suggesting wearing a wire, recording the president and initiating moves to invoke the 25th amendment and remove Trump from power.

From The Guardian

During the trip, Junior wore a video wire, recording the entire meeting.

From Washington Post