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tan

[tan] / tæn /






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Reflecting on the moments leading up to the camera rolling, Jordan said it felt "pretty cool" to get a spray tan and try out bodybuilder poses for the shoot.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The garments that they could not find, such as Bessette’s wedding dress, her rehearsal dinner dress and a tan and black ruffle coat from Yamamoto, they re-created using historical images and input from the designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Maduro, wearing tan jail garb, listened to the proceedings on Wednesday through headphones that provided Spanish interpretation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Wearing a tan jumpsuit, he read a prepared statement in Spanish in which he extraordinarily urged young people to turn away from violence.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Bundles of herbs tied with tan string hung from the ceiling.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Back on TikTok, in her own way, beauty influencer and fake tanner Jemma is also trying to prevent others from going through what Jak did.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Bong has given the leader TV aspirations; the makeup team has given him orange tanner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

He noticed more boats going after tanner crab last season — a much smaller fishery, but one that was open.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

He was also tanner and had shaved his head.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023

The girls armed themselves with sticks and small rocks, curling irons and bottles of tanner.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Sen. Rick Scott will face off against one of Florida’s tannest mothers in the GOP primary this election cycle.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Q: Is Sutter the tannest man in sports?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2014

Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Visor-wearing buzzards with farmer’s tans are circling the Saudi-backed league as the Kingdom considers terminating its munificent support of the lavish and comically irrelevant golf concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

By the 1960s and 70s sun lovers were using cooking oil and reflective blankets to deepen their tans.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Pumped-up lips, spray tans, hollowed-out cheeks and false lashes are just some of the characteristics of the “Mar-a-Lago face” that Donald Trump adores in his women.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2025

Those necklaces left green marks around our necks where they rubbed, but our tans mostly covered them up.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

Very much like an election, in other words, only one populated with women who were scalpel-sculpted, lifted, tanned and tucked to surgical specifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

To the looksmaxxers, these peptides aren’t about health; they’re for shedding fat, building muscle, clearing up skin, and even getting tanned.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

NANTUCKET, Mass.—On a recent morning, a tanned Dave Portnoy appeared to be living his best rich-guy life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Within minutes of the announcement, memories of the elegant and tanned designer began to flood social media.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

Their bodies were tanned and their hair was bleached by the sunlight.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

I found Sedona Quantum Consciousness online, via an advertisement for its Cell-Well Medbed, which appeared in photos to be a souped-up tanning bed.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A CeraVe sunscreen campaign woos Gen Z tanmaxxers with a social-media video series that kicks off with the dramatic destruction of a tanning bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

They also proposed displaying cigarette-style images at sunbed shops and tanning salons to dissuade people from using them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

I figured T-N-T and Becca were probably at home, I don't know, tanning or something.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds


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