tat
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Part of that healing process will involve leaning into the humor tat Dodd imbues in his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
He praised Powell’s avoidance of engaging in tit for tat with the president.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
In this tit for tat, though, California’s threats to respond have thus far proved ineffectual.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
Instead of tit for tat, the prime minister is pivoting Canada with precision toward alternative trade blocs like Europe and the Pacific Rim.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2025
It was those different rat, tat, tats that told the men which way to turn, how fast to march, when to load their muskets, and when to shoot.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
In his “6:16 in LA,” Mr. Lamar mentions the pizza restaurant Lucali, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: “My visa, passport tatted, I show up in Ibiza, Lucalis dwellings in Brooklyn just to book me some pizza.”
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
However, I am married to a woman who loves that place so much that she wants to get the logo tatted on her thigh.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
The tatted head of a ruby octopus peers though the patio fences of Reuben’s Brews in Ballard.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
She’s a muscular military brat with red-tipped hair; tatted arms, stomach, and neck; and black gauges in her ears.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021
Just like Aunt Pooh has Lena’s lips tatted on her neck, Lena has “Pooh” on her chest.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
Thousands of young women were given an education and a portable skill, their equipment — tatting shuttle, thread, needles, crochet hooks — small enough to fit in a pocket, and take to America.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016
From the outside it's kind of amusing to think of you as a prisoner in your own home as your mother-in-law takes over the porch with her tatting and smoking.
From Slate ● May 29, 2013
Or as the milestone is better known in body-art circles, tatting 300.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2012
Last year has to be one of the worst episodes of senatorial tatting in history.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2012
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the first place ribbon in the novice tatting category goes to...Miss Lula Gates! Let’s have a big cheer for Miss Lula Gates!”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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