tad
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Americans have spent a tad less on electricity as a percentage of all their spending in recent years.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
He has the confidence to only dress up his new dystopia a tad, letting the scale of the oppression creep up on you when, say, an açaí bowl salesman casually asks Tereza for her papers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The crash in the race wasn't his fault but perhaps he could have judged his overspeed a tad better - easy for me to say.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Headline CPI rose 2.4% last month from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace and coming in a tad lower than economists’ forecasts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Once these words were out of the way, the woman’s voice grew a tad more firm, raspy, but still confident, as she immediately turned to the logistical details.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records.
From Time Magazine Archive
For my tads, the educational materials include a 2-ft. sign joyously inscribed MOMMY.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the little tads would run from me, screaming as though they had met a lion or some other wild beast of the forest.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
While they are still tiny tads, the boys of St. John's and the outposts practise leaping across rain-barrels and mud-puddles.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Waldo
