tattoo
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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
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“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
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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
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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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