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tat

[tat] / tæt /




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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

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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