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- verb Present participle of
pretape .
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Examples
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I hear McCain is pretaping his concession speech and will be releasing it from an undisclosed location. sqr1
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So as you mentioned, this morning, he is going to be making a live speech in his live radio address, instead of pretaping it as he had yesterday morning.
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JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW": Then they called back and said, "Also, would you mind pretaping it, because of the FCC."
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TED KOPPEL, ABC ANCHOR: Have you thought about pretaping the show so you don't make (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
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MR. MCCURRY: No. He's pretaping the radio address now.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1998
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Is he doing the radio address live, or -- pretaping tomorrow?
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
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MR. MCCURRY: Well, you won't get until tomorrow -- the President is pretaping that earlier in the morning, but the transcript ought to be available just prior to the 10: 06 a.m.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry And Others ITY National Archives 1995
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But the President, since he was in fact pretaping his Saturday radio address, and because it dealt with a subject that it was very clear many of you are interested in covering today, we felt it would be useful to you to have access to that text.
Mike Mccurry Press Briefing ITY National Archives 1995
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It took more than a month, with all the papers to be sorted through and interpreted, but the conclusion was basically this: There was nothing to be done to help the current sleepers, but by pretaping a person's memories and then putting him on somec, with the tape to be replayed after he awakened, a person could be kept alive for an indefinite period of time with no damage whatsoever.
Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979
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Just back from a recent tour of the WFP's operations in flood-stricken Pakistan, Mr. Stroumboulopoulos said in a pretaping interview that he envisions the role he'll carve out as a "nation-building" opportunity - and a responsibility given the platforms he has access to.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JESSICA LEEDER 2011
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