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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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She also has a large leg tattoo that reads “dream until it’s your reality” that she got when she was 19.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

The tattoo even has a crown on it, strengthening her belief that she’s right where she’s supposed to be, debuting for the new Women’s Pro Baseball League’s Los Angeles Queens.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

Seven people, he wrote, took him up on the offer, leaving the San Francisco event last weekend inked with a permanent tattoo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Zietz later called the offer reckless and offered to pay for tattoo removal costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

I look at the guard with the tattoo and then to the gun at his side.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

LemonLime co-founder Jordan Zietz apologized after offering instant job interviews to networking event attendees who agreed to get tattoos.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

This time, Zietz said that all of the people who got tattoos chose their own.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Only a mint green handbag and full sleeves of tattoos suggested that Gen Z’s reigning rock star had settled in to talk about his new album “Oh Yeah?”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

BBC News has approached a number of studios offering bottomless tattoos for comment.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

She complains to the other nurse that we patients don’t have enough structured time, and in the end, she gets the orderly with the scary tattoos to escort me away.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

He’s married to his childhood sweetheart, has three adorable sons and a picture of his mother tattooed on his back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

He didn’t have skeletons just in his closet; he had one tattooed on his chest.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

A burly junior sergeant nicknamed Manunya has tattooed up to 100 of the soldiers in the brigade with national symbols, animals and family, throughout a war he joined in its first days.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 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

It was Noor laughing intimately with the tattooed boy in the narrow alley behind the McDonald’s.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

When he started tattooing in 2004, he used the pseudonym Sunrat Tattoo, and ran his first studio out of a basement.

From BBC May 29, 2026

“You’re not tattooing your face. You’re painting your walls,” she says as a way to encourage others to experiment.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 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

“The Half-pint Beanfield Angel,” Onofre hooted insanely, tattooing the earth with his boots.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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