parlor
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The pair helps to run Division One, a local booking company that books anywhere from Corona storefront DBZ Books N’ Records to their very own tattoo parlor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
For a summer parlor game, let’s play “Who said that?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
“When customers or analysts start thinking, ‘Gosh, AI is gonna eat software or SaaS,’ it comes from the place of seeing parlor tricks.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
It’s become a bit of a media-and-tech parlor game to try to estimate exactly what these losses are, on average.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2026
Aunt Tess must be sitting down in the parlor with the morning news.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
As new arrivals moved into cities, an 8-by-5-block pocket of downtown Vancouver soon grew into Canada’s largest Chinatown, with bustling mahjong parlors, herbalists and community centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
The latest show in her Netflix deal, though, portrays it as a blank collection of staircases and parlors not unlike others where all-star ensembles marry screwball comedy with murder.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
Such are our funeral parlors for food, where mechanical reproduction haunts nourishment and we eat from the giant slot machines of industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Her paintings are set amid the privileged spaces of 19th-century parlors and gardens, where women sew or read or nurse an infant, uninterrupted by men.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
He wondered if she were back in the library or in Millsburg at one of the funeral parlors.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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