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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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He’s in a plaid button-down and long shorts that stop above a leg tattoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

At one party, a neighbor of mine, a tattoo artist who had no tattoos of his own, generously lent me four tufted beanbags in a demure oatmeal color.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Startup LemonLime earlier this year offered interviews to anyone at a networking party willing to get inked with a company tattoo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Could your tattoo stop you from getting a job?

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I hadn’t ever considered getting a tattoo before, but I had this on my arm by the time I fell asleep that night.”

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

“If they destroy the Lakers, guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start the proletariat revolution. I think that the closest we’re getting to class consciousness is fast food and sports teams.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even today, some older men bear facial tattoos associated with the Konyaks' historical practice of headhunting.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the popular imagination, a Viking is tall, broad-shouldered man who wields a sword, and might have a modern haircut like a skin fade or lots of tattoos.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Instantly when we meet him in the new book, he’s described with all these delicious descriptions. He’s got all these very specific tattoos that are in very specific places on his body,” Ah Sing says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The sheer scope and number of tattoos and piercings would have Mamma fainting.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Here is how you might remember Carl Lentz: He was the tattooed, skinny jeans-wearing head pastor of Hillsong’s New York City church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The glow of her computer occasionally caught her sharp cheekbones and bounced off her chin, highlighting the thin tattooed line that bisects it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In several of her novels, Ms. Mandel has had characters with beloved quotations tattooed on their bodies, a practice that inspired a real-life trend of the author’s fans being inked with lines from her books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Recently she had an image of a clock, frozen at 09:13 on 21 October 1966, tattooed on her arm.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Fish was this big, big, big dude—the guy who tattooed Aurelia.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds

Even if the choice of this outfit is that Wang is soft-launching his stick-and-poke tattooing side hustle, it’s still a conscious choice.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

“You’re not tattooing your face. You’re painting your walls,” she says as a way to encourage others to experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

“People started tattooing ‘Dios Por Delante’ on their forearms and neck and that’s when we realized that this was more than music, it’s a movement,” Joel said of the impact of the latter song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

While he sported multiple tattoos, these days “people are tattooing their entire faces—and then having surgery to remove their lips and ears, so they look like aliens.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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