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
The final tat disappeared and it became nothing but boom.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
He is tatted, burly, and often dressed in black, with just enough gray in his beard to scan as learned.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026
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
The only guy on set is a goofy, tatted actor fascinated by a shark video game.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
The tatted head of a ruby octopus peers though the patio fences of Reuben’s Brews in Ballard.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Her arms and neck are covered in tattoos that only GDs can decipher, except for those red lips tatted on her neck.
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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