tat
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Before the game, Palmer said tat he tells his players to never take an opponent too lightly nor build it up too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"It was definitely tit for tat and definitely a game of momentum swinging," said centre Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
He praised Powell’s avoidance of engaging in tit for tat with the president.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
In this tit for tat, though, California’s threats to respond have thus far proved ineffectual.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
And he never stopped hearing those British battle drums, that ghostly RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
He is tatted, burly, and often dressed in black, with just enough gray in his beard to scan as learned.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026
In his “6:16 in LA,” Mr. Lamar mentions the pizza restaurant Lucali, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: “My visa, passport tatted, I show up in Ibiza, Lucalis dwellings in Brooklyn just to book me some pizza.”
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
“I got it tatted in the offseason; it says, ‘Pressure — I live for it,’” Beckham said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
The tatted head of a ruby octopus peers though the patio fences of Reuben’s Brews in Ballard.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Just like Aunt Pooh has Lena’s lips tatted on her neck, Lena has “Pooh” on her chest.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Thousands of young women were given an education and a portable skill, their equipment — tatting shuttle, thread, needles, crochet hooks — small enough to fit in a pocket, and take to America.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016
From the outside it's kind of amusing to think of you as a prisoner in your own home as your mother-in-law takes over the porch with her tatting and smoking.
From Slate ● May 29, 2013
Or as the milestone is better known in body-art circles, tatting 300.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2012
Last year has to be one of the worst episodes of senatorial tatting in history.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2012
He had bicycle clips and tatting shuttles and Mah Jong sets.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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