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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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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

Her forearm tattoo comprises geometric shapes symbolising different members and aspects of her family.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

She didn't need to check for a tattoo to know it was him.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Each of the tattoos varies in style, not unlike the distinct personalities in the book’s fictional MFA cohort.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

L.A.’s Michelle Bunny has five rabbit tattoos with plans for more.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

She kept fans tantalized with rumors that a penchant for long-sleeved shirts in her later years concealed two full sleeves of tattoos.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Kelly’s arms were covered in temporary tattoos that her parents allowed her to have.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Her father plans to have the phrase tattooed on him this week.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

"Even 11 years ago, when I started getting tattooed, the hands, neck and face were called 'job stoppers', and a lot of artists wouldn't tattoo people in those areas," she says.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Indeed, my mantra through much of the decadeslong campaign had been—to borrow a phrase that at least one ardent activist actually tattooed on her arm—“There is no marriage without engagement.”

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

I look at her hands on the wheel, her tattooed forearms, her neck, her mouth.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

“People started tattooing ‘Dios Por Delante’ on their forearms and neck and that’s when we realized that this was more than music, it’s a movement,” Joel said of the impact of the latter song.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 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

While he sported multiple tattoos, these days “people are tattooing their entire faces—and then having surgery to remove their lips and ears, so they look like aliens.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

The scans revealed "intricate crisp and uniform" tattooing that could not be seen with the naked eye.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2025

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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