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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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As a fellow veteran, I’ve been thinking deeply about the tattoo specifically, and what it meant.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

He had the tattoo covered up following the outcry.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

On his index finger, Roa has a tattoo: "Faith in God."

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Families search for any trace that might help identify their loved ones - a tattoo, a bracelet, a piece of clothing, or an item from their home.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Jake rubs his thumb over his tattoo, then turns to look at me with a sad smile that’s like a dagger to my heart.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

“If there aren’t fans that are putting tattoos of your lyrics on their body, you might be having a problem.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

It’s like Cirque du Soleil performed by unrehearsed 19-year-olds with skull tattoos, or some mad operation dreamed up by Col.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

Hegseth has defended his tattoos as expressions of his deeply held Christian faith.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

The fun part was, because he would be my age, thinking about growing up in Philly at that time and who his heroes would be, having ideas for tattoos, stuff like that.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

I had never seen so many exposed beer bellies, homemade tattoos and butt cracks in my life.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

I asked her if she would initial my wrist, and I got it tattooed the same night.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

He didn’t have skeletons just in his closet; he had one tattooed on his chest.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

It’s a strange request, but Aaron plays along until Hank asks about the word “diablo” tattooed by Aaron’s eyebrow, a piece of ink Aaron makes explicitly clear he does not want to discuss.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Life-long fan Joe Thomas has the painting tattooed on his leg.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

He could just glimpse, at the far end, a row of six men and six women, some cloaked, some bare-headed, one with a tattooed line down her chin, sitting on twelve vast chairs.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The Welsh Government says it is monitoring the implementation of mandatory licencing schemes for acupuncture, dry needling, body piercing, electrolysis, tattooing and semi-permanent makeup and this "will inform any potential future extension to other procedures".

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

“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

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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