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It was a long 100-day shoot, sitting in an emotional state that it’s like an open tab always for the entire length of the shoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
He shaved off his black hair like a monk, gathered friends for tea and discreetly picked up the tab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The company’s first earnings report as a public company shows a surge in revenue and the tab for capital expenditures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Noodles took the tab from his mouth and dropped it into the empty can.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
Investors are keeping tabs on Tokyo after a spike in the Japanese yen stoked speculation of more intervention by authorities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Every day. I think he's kept tabs on things," said Root.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Back then it seemed reasonable for bosses to keep tabs on employees they couldn’t see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Additionally, tabloids and other outlets have kept close tabs on her romantic relationships, including her reunions with ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez, following a reported split with “Wicked” co-star Ethan Slater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
They wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble breaking me out if they hadn’t had a method of keeping tabs on me if I got recaptured or separated from them.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Some investors like to speculate about potential additions — presuming that stocks tabbed to join the S&P 500 will get short-term boosts as funds tracking the index will be forced to take positions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Victor Wembanyama was always tabbed to be basketball’s next superstar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Merrick Garland, a distinguished appellate court judge and Barack Obama's ill-fated 2016 pick for the Supreme Court, was tabbed for attorney general.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
At one point, he was tabbed as a consensus top-20 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
A quick search in the database pulled up the exact same book, and I tabbed through to the first page, making sure the words were enlarged as much as possible.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“Kind of like collecting Pokémon, except instead of collecting Pokémon, I’m tabbing birds in my guide book.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
New USC athletic director Jennifer Cohen made a tremendous hire tabbing DeBoer to be the Huskies’ head man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Virginia Tech hired Brent Pry as its new football coach, the school announced Tuesday, tabbing the Penn State defensive coordinator to fill a vacancy that came open two weeks ago.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
I careened across the internet like a drunk, tabbing: small-space decoration ideas; author interviews; videos of cake frosting; Renaissance paintings with feminist captions.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2020
I dumped my valises, horned into that bunch, picked her off the truck and carried her away on my shoulder, while the professor yelled at me, and the other ginks were tabbing up their additions.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
