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The guy really picking up the tab was Elon Musk.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Bass’ campaign said it is picking up the tab for the legal work but wasn’t paying Hennessy and Gomberg for their efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

One woman writes: “I like the idea of honoring the staff. If you were to pick up my $100 tab, I’d like it, sure.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Most of the loss was ultimately passed on to gas users in Germany, with the state also picking up some of the tab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Her parents dine here religiously on Friday nights, and she informs me that our dinner must be put on their tab.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Family dynamics run deep, and sorting through the complications involved in restricting a connection to the outside world or keeping tabs on an older person will look different for every household.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

It comes with an app so you can keep tabs on its performance, and the ability to automatically run during off-peak electricity hours.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Molchanova said Epstein kept tabs on her spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The singer made a similar gesture in 2022 when he opened £1,000 tabs at 60 pubs.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

“I may not be around all the time, but I’ve always kept tabs on you and your mama.”

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Zacharia herself noted this phenomenon prior to being tabbed for the White House job.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The maker of fuel-cell technology is one of three companies tabbed to join the benchmark index as part of a quarterly rebalancing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Born in San Jose, Calif., before moving to Chapel Hill, N.C as a teen, he was tabbed as the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2023 by the American Junior Golf Association.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Santa Monica State Beach was tabbed to be the L.A. home for Olympic beach volleyball since the organizing committee’s first bid in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

A quick search in the database pulled up the exact same book, and I tabbed through to the first page, making sure the words were enlarged as much as possible.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“Kind of like collecting Pokémon, except instead of collecting Pokémon, I’m tabbing birds in my guide book.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

They had lost in the divisional round in 2012 but had finished the season in a fashion that had many tabbing them as a Super Bowl favorite in 2013.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

New USC athletic director Jennifer Cohen made a tremendous hire tabbing DeBoer to be the Huskies’ head man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

I careened across the internet like a drunk, tabbing: small-space decoration ideas; author interviews; videos of cake frosting; Renaissance paintings with feminist captions.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2020

I dumped my valises, horned into that bunch, picked her off the truck and carried her away on my shoulder, while the professor yelled at me, and the other ginks were tabbing up their additions.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan