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tattoo

[ta-too] / tæˈtu /
NOUN
design on the skin
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NOUN
continuous drumming
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While some teenagers may mark their 18th birthdays by buying a lottery ticket or getting a first tattoo, Deon Radcliff Jr. had different priorities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

New York remains a restless town where you can get a steak dinner and a tattoo of Joey Ramone with Joe Franklin etched on your back, long after quitting time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"But when we showed them the body, one of the women realised it wasn't her husband because there was a tattoo on the arm."

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Much later, Leffler found a tattoo artist with dimples like her daughter’s and a studio painted Ruby’s favorite shade of pink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Ampai stared down at his wrist, but she seemed more interested in the bracelets than his tattoo.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Even today, some older men bear facial tattoos associated with the Konyaks' historical practice of headhunting.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the popular imagination, a Viking is tall, broad-shouldered man who wields a sword, and might have a modern haircut like a skin fade or lots of tattoos.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another horde, the Reapers, runs around shirtless to show off their thick black tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

For outsiders, Hegseth’s attempt at this version of manhood, complete with bad tattoos and workout videos, is cringeworthy.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

A blue-haired hipster and her tattooed companion walked past, cotton candy in hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Her father plans to have the phrase tattooed on him this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Even 11 years ago, when I started getting tattooed, the hands, neck and face were called 'job stoppers', and a lot of artists wouldn't tattoo people in those areas," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

I think of the fragment of glass tattooed on her skin.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

But he is standing tall at the plate, tattooing balls at the letters, double-fisting his follow-throughs and, importantly, generally showing discernment about the strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

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

Ahead of its passing, the Korean Medical Association said tattooing "not only damages the skin but can also pose other health risks, including interference with cancer diagnosis".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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