tad
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The dollar index DXY is a tad lower, as oil futures CL.1 give back early gains and gold futures GC00 trade around $4,020 an ounce.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Its target rises a tad to A$13.55 from A$13.50.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
He has the confidence to only dress up his new dystopia a tad, letting the scale of the oppression creep up on you when, say, an açaí bowl salesman casually asks Tereza for her papers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The crash in the race wasn't his fault but perhaps he could have judged his overspeed a tad better - easy for me to say.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
We are similar in scale, though I am a tad bit larger.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
For my tads, the educational materials include a 2-ft. sign joyously inscribed MOMMY.
From Time Magazine Archive
That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
From Time Magazine Archive
While they are still tiny tads, the boys of St. John's and the outposts practise leaping across rain-barrels and mud-puddles.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton
There are twelve little tads in the room, and they are awful good when you think that they are sick.
From Living Up to Billy by Cooper, Elizabeth
