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suntan

[suhn-tan] / ˈsʌnˌtæn /


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While there are some ingredients in suntan lotions - like oxybenzone - that can cause environmental damage to coral reefs, there is not evidence to suggest it poses a risk to humans, Dr McCann says.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

Marker, who also surfs, plays guitar and rides motorcycles, is 63 going on 16, with silver hair and a skate-park suntan.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2025

Edgewell Personal Care Co., the maker of Schick blazers and Banana Boat suntan lotion, has trimmed certain varieties of its anti-bacteria wipes Wet Ones, among others.

From Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2024

“People go into the gift shop early in the trip to buy suntan lotion, a hat, and browse,” he said.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2023

Everywhere smelt of suntan oil, hamburgers, and burnt sugar.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.

From The New Yorker Aug. 12, 2019

Many officials spent their time in a secure room reading signals-intelligence reports or working on their suntans by the pool.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2016

Honestly, would you want to be dating someone who can make it through that field of California suntans without even an aesthete’s appreciation?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2016

The door swung open and there stood two girls, centre-parted blonde hair, fading suntans, sandals and painted toenails, bare arms, sweet expectant smiles, unbearably pretty.

From The Guardian Aug. 10, 2012

It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

NOV 2008: Berlusconi hails Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned", after he was elected the United States' first Black president.

From Reuters Jun. 12, 2023

The smiling, suntanned participants joined sessions on team-building and learned how to collectively protect and promote the rights of patients and drug users to humane medical and social treatment, including ST.

From Slate May 22, 2017

At 75 he looks fit and suntanned, a Platonic ideal of the Aussie bloke.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2016

It was a welcome relief from the suntanned wealth of Coachella.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2015

Doc Daneeka’s fragile suntanned forehead furrowed with surprise.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

At this time of year, a person can go ice fishing and recline, shirtless, by the hole, suntanning from reflecting light.

From Scientific American Nov. 18, 2019

But what about addiction to suntanning, bodybuilding, fortune telling, or love?

From Slate Aug. 31, 2015

How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors?

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm an evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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