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A new tab called Health Age shows how a user is tracking relative to their actual age based on trackable habits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
It was a long 100-day shoot, sitting in an emotional state that it’s like an open tab always for the entire length of the shoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Because that’s expensive, she’s asking everyone who attends to pay her $80 to help cover the tab.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The streamer is the latest to integrate a tab for vertical videos into its interface, following Netflix, Prime Video and more.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
“This tab, this. That’s a hundred bills, miss.”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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 saw you guys tweeting back and forth from the European tour and kind of keeping tabs on that.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2017
Parents gathered coats and checks and paid their tabs.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
Some investors like to speculate about potential additions, presuming that stocks tabbed to join the index will get short-term boosts, as funds tracking the S&P 500 will be forced to take positions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
He hired a staff that included his sons as assistant coaches and tabbed longtime NFL executive Michael Lombardi to be the Tar Heels’ general manager.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Merrick Garland, a distinguished appellate court judge and Barack Obama's ill-fated 2016 pick for the Supreme Court, was tabbed for attorney general.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
At one point, he was tabbed as a consensus top-20 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
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
On short notice, Berhalter felt comfortable tabbing Moore, the fourth-string right back who played a key role in the Gold Cup championship last summer.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022
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
Men would be going down to the river now—freshmen would be hearing reluctantly, some of them with tears, the coarse and violent criticism of the Third Year men who were tabbing them.
From The Prelude to Adventure by Sir Hugh Walpole
