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
I enjoy a good coaster, but I’m a tad squeamish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Is Kimi Antonelli being overhyped due to results that largely he's been a tad fortunate with?
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Headline CPI rose 2.4% last month from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace and coming in a tad lower than economists’ forecasts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
So I was a tad straighter than I’d been the last couple days, and the ringing sounded a tad louder, a tad more persistent and, yes, maybe even a tad friendlier than usual.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
For my tads, the educational materials include a 2-ft. sign joyously inscribed MOMMY.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
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
You git my idy, do you?—little tads, you understand— Jes' a wishin', thue and thue you, that you on'y was a man.
From Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education by William Suddards Franklin
Sometimes the little tads would run from me, screaming as though they had met a lion or some other wild beast of the forest.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
