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tan

[tan] / tæn /






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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

She’s let her hair go gray but kept up her tan, and she’s careful not to ridicule the ways her body has changed with age.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

She had hazel eyes, tan skin, and long brown hair.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Ms Eagle said she became suspicious after her stepdaughter, who also used a tanner, spotted a Facebook post from someone who said they had also suffered a bad reaction.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

Bong has given the leader TV aspirations; the makeup team has given him orange tanner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

When he returned to Germany, he searched all over the country for a traditional tanner who could teach him the craft and found one in Bad Hindelang, where Bensmann still lives today.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

He was also tanner and had shaved his head.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023

The tanner who’d given me work for a few weeks.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Why are so many of your fabrics tans, ivories or “goat-colored”?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

Stacey and Natalie have a 32-second stare-off in a pharmacy, only interrupted when a customer asks Natalie: "Where to's your fake tans?"

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024

I saw them on the sunroof, yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans, and they seemed bored as hell.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

He could determine a man’s profession from the wear pattern on his trousers, from whether he was lightly or deeply tanned, or from which parts of his hands were callused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

To the looksmaxxers, these peptides aren’t about health; they’re for shedding fat, building muscle, clearing up skin, and even getting tanned.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

She had once been tanned dark from the sun, but without a clear day in months, her skin had paled.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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

Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 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

He kept well out of the moonlight and away from the flare of torches, and huddled between a warehouse and a tanning shed.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes


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