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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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"I do have a Bake Off tattoo on my ribs - I've got a piping bag, a whisk and a rolling pin," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Right now I’m really into Martha who is a henna tattoo artist, so I just get blasted with henna tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

"But when we showed them the body, one of the women realised it wasn't her husband because there was a tattoo on the arm."

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Artwork by his son Naviyd is featured on the walls, while an enlarged drawing of a tattoo that Usher has on his chin has been turned into a decorative ceiling mural.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

It is impossible to tell how far beyond that the tattoo travels.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Even today, some older men bear facial tattoos associated with the Konyaks' historical practice of headhunting.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the popular imagination, a Viking is tall, broad-shouldered man who wields a sword, and might have a modern haircut like a skin fade or lots of tattoos.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Los Angeles-area Bookstagrammer Michelle Grondine, 40, is inked with five “Bunny”-inspired tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Covered in tattoos, with his hair in a long white braid, the 35-year-old Australian DJ and former boy-band member looks more like an all-night raver than a children’s host.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

John Mark’s got bunches of tattoos, but this dude’s tats make his look like kindergarten drawings.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Within a single family, he says, a grandfather might be a former headhunter, his face still tattooed; two generations later, his grandson might play guitar in a rock band.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In several of her novels, Ms. Mandel has had characters with beloved quotations tattooed on their bodies, a practice that inspired a real-life trend of the author’s fans being inked with lines from her books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Recently she had an image of a clock, frozen at 09:13 on 21 October 1966, tattooed on her arm.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Almost an hour into the conversation, the comedian reveals that he has Joan Didion’s author photo tattooed on his chest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

He has bulgy muscles with a tattooed eagle on his right arm.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Even if the choice of this outfit is that Wang is soft-launching his stick-and-poke tattooing side hustle, it’s still a conscious choice.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

But he is standing tall at the plate, tattooing balls at the letters, double-fisting his follow-throughs and, importantly, generally showing discernment about the strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“You’re not tattooing your face. You’re painting your walls,” she says as a way to encourage others to experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

Ruben said having his eyebrows micro-bladed - a semi-permanent cosmetic tattooing technique that shaped and filled them - had reduced his urge to pull the hairs.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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