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In 1986, as the 28-year-old head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Murphy came across a man in a tan suit, standing on the side of the road beside a broken-down car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Wearing tan jail uniforms, the brothers maintained they did not commit the alleged crimes as they slammed conditions in US custody.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

As the son of a cobbler, he knows how to tan goat hides, which provide him with the needed coverings for both his dwelling place and his body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Wearing a tan jumpsuit, he read a prepared statement in Spanish in which he extraordinarily urged young people to turn away from violence.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

As he walked, he looked himself over, realizing with annoyance that somewhere along the line his tan shirt and pants had both been ripped.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

She told her hospital consultant, who asked where she had bought the tanner and what was in it.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

He noticed more boats going after tanner crab last season — a much smaller fishery, but one that was open.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

He was also tanner and had shaved his head.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023

The state supplies 6 percent of the world’s king, snow, tanner and Dungeness crabs, per the institute.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022

She was tanner than when she had first arrived, but the sun was hot today, and she did not want to take any chances.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Sen. Rick Scott will face off against one of Florida’s tannest mothers in the GOP primary this election cycle.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Q: Is Sutter the tannest man in sports?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2014

Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Visor-wearing buzzards with farmer’s tans are circling the Saudi-backed league as the Kingdom considers terminating its munificent support of the lavish and comically irrelevant golf concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Pumped-up lips, spray tans, hollowed-out cheeks and false lashes are just some of the characteristics of the “Mar-a-Lago face” that Donald Trump adores in his women.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2025

Three pairs of dancers have made it to Blackpool's National Amateur Championships, but rivalries and mis-steps threaten the fixed smiles and fake tans in Amanda Whittington's Kiss Me Quickstep, Derby Theatre, 6-21 June.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

They have freckles and tans, light hair and dark, crooked features and curves, and they are all exactly as they are meant to be.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

As the value of wool is reduced to almost nothing, Eva and her husband test the market for tanned sheepskins, mounted rams’ heads and a turnip-based alcoholic drink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

On the other, he’s a former reality-TV host with an unnaturally tanned face who dances to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Very much like an election, in other words, only one populated with women who were scalpel-sculpted, lifted, tanned and tucked to surgical specifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Within minutes of the announcement, memories of the elegant and tanned designer began to flood social media.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

The one time we took it down, there was a pale square behind it, as though the sun had tanned the wall around the painting.

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson

I found Sedona Quantum Consciousness online, via an advertisement for its Cell-Well Medbed, which appeared in photos to be a souped-up tanning bed.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A CeraVe sunscreen campaign woos Gen Z tanmaxxers with a social-media video series that kicks off with the dramatic destruction of a tanning bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

They also proposed displaying cigarette-style images at sunbed shops and tanning salons to dissuade people from using them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

The U.S. is a bit of an outlier in its permissive approach to youth indoor tanning.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

For her, tanning had moved from an intense hobby to something more closely resembling a psychological dysfunction.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris