tattoo
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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
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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
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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
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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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