tad
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The dollar index DXY is a tad higher, while gold futures GC00 are trading around $4.670 an ounce.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
He has the confidence to only dress up his new dystopia a tad, letting the scale of the oppression creep up on you when, say, an açaí bowl salesman casually asks Tereza for her papers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The crash in the race wasn't his fault but perhaps he could have judged his overspeed a tad better - easy for me to say.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Headline CPI rose 2.4% last month from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace and coming in a tad lower than economists’ forecasts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Dimple clicked over to the other window she had open, her smile fading just a tad.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
From Time Magazine Archive
For my tads, the educational materials include a 2-ft. sign joyously inscribed MOMMY.
From Time Magazine Archive
That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, before they know it, they are invited out to receptions and parties, where little tads preside at the punch-bowls and wait on table, and are seen and not heard.
From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
Wasn't it a good time, Long Time Ago— When we all were little tads And first played "Show"!—
From The Book of Joyous Children by Will Vawter
