tattered
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Tattered sweaters, linen T-shirts, parachute shirts and “bondage suits” are printed with slogans that read “Only anarchists are pretty” and “Anarchist punk gang.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Tattered curtains, matted carpets and missing shower heads were replaced.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
Bainbridge Island author David Guterson remembered a 1994 book-signing of his novel “Snow Falling on Cedars” at The Tattered Cover in Denver — attended only by his brother Ben.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023
Tattered electrical tape held together the brass rail, and Jimmy had left behind his old equipment — suture scissors, adrenaline and Vaseline — in a briefcase.
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021
Tattered, bleeding, ragged, and stunned I come out the end of the gorge to crash in the next checkpoint and spend the day recovering.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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