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Bass’ campaign said it is picking up the tab for the legal work but wasn’t paying Hennessy and Gomberg for their efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It was a long 100-day shoot, sitting in an emotional state that it’s like an open tab always for the entire length of the shoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Leonard, meanwhile, was hit with a $700,000 tab, but who really cares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Because that’s expensive, she’s asking everyone who attends to pay her $80 to help cover the tab.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Removing the last tab means removal from the classroom or other appropriate consequence.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Family dynamics run deep, and sorting through the complications involved in restricting a connection to the outside world or keeping tabs on an older person will look different for every household.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Jones often has about 50 tabs open on his computer at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It comes with an app so you can keep tabs on its performance, and the ability to automatically run during off-peak electricity hours.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Investors are keeping tabs on Tokyo after a spike in the Japanese yen stoked speculation of more intervention by authorities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Parents gathered coats and checks and paid their tabs.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
Some investors like to speculate about potential additions, presuming that stocks tabbed to join the index will get short-term boosts, as funds tracking the S&P 500 will be forced to take positions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Ever since Wembanyama was a teenager in France, he was tabbed as a prospect who would tower over the future of basketball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Merrick Garland, a distinguished appellate court judge and Barack Obama's ill-fated 2016 pick for the Supreme Court, was tabbed for attorney general.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
At one point, he was tabbed as a consensus top-20 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
A quick search in the database pulled up the exact same book, and I tabbed through to the first page, making sure the words were enlarged as much as possible.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“Kind of like collecting Pokémon, except instead of collecting Pokémon, I’m tabbing birds in my guide book.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Metta Sandiford-Artest — then known as Metta World Peace — was on that Lakers team and remembers tabbing Ham as a future coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2022
USA Hockey made the announcement Wednesday morning, tabbing Sullivan and along with Joel Johnson for its women’s team and David Hoff for the Paralympic sled hockey team.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
I careened across the internet like a drunk, tabbing: small-space decoration ideas; author interviews; videos of cake frosting; Renaissance paintings with feminist captions.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2020
I dumped my valises, horned into that bunch, picked her off the truck and carried her away on my shoulder, while the professor yelled at me, and the other ginks were tabbing up their additions.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
