VHS
Americanabbreviation
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Were there any other working titles for that VHS tape?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Yet, like so many other millennials, I religiously set the VHS player to record “Dawson’s Creek” every week on the WB.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
So much so that at around age 8, I rented a VHS tape of the Broadway production and watched it over and over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
The judges praised Kalu's brightly-coloured sculptures - which are haphazardly wrapped in layers of ribbon, string, card and shiny VHS tape - and her drawings of swirling, tornado-like shapes.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
It looks like a regular store— shelves of DVDs and old VHS tapes and a rack of magazines, all under this harsh fluorescent glow.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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