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suntan

[suhn-tan] / ˈsʌnˌtæn /


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She says the current trend to create tan lines by burning in the sun, coupled with false claims that suntan lotion is responsible for the very cancer it's trying to prevent is a "perfect storm".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Edgewell Personal Care Co., the maker of Schick blazers and Banana Boat suntan lotion, has trimmed certain varieties of its anti-bacteria wipes Wet Ones, among others.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Sophie would rather apply suntan lotion to her own back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

He recently posted a photo of a surfboard he commissioned, with an artistic rendering of his face covered in stark white suntan lotion, a meme that circulated widely online last year.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

But Mrs. Washburn says I look a little like Audrey Hepburn with a suntan.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

“They have the best suntans you’ve ever seen in your life,” said Kasen’s mom, Katie Wenzel, 45, who runs a local restaurant and motel.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021

The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

Many officials spent their time in a secure room reading signals-intelligence reports or working on their suntans by the pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2016

Honestly, would you want to be dating someone who can make it through that field of California suntans without even an aesthete’s appreciation?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2016

He was wearing a blue shirt and suntans and white socks and black shoes.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

“It wasn’t that I was in the French Riviera getting suntanned with Keith Richards.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

NOV 2008: Berlusconi hails Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned", after he was elected the United States' first Black president.

From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023

We’ve stopped telling them that we always go to our garden in Brandenburg at the weekend, but they can tell anyway – by our suntanned holiday faces.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2020

The smiling, suntanned participants joined sessions on team-building and learned how to collectively protect and promote the rights of patients and drug users to humane medical and social treatment, including ST.

From Slate ● May 22, 2017

And then a completely soaked, suntanned someone leaned around the doorframe.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

At this time of year, a person can go ice fishing and recline, shirtless, by the hole, suntanning from reflecting light.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

But what about addiction to suntanning, bodybuilding, fortune telling, or love?

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015

How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors?

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm an evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals


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