tad
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It’s all very exciting and just a tad chaotic — kind of like a game of musical chairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
This year, though, could be a tad less clear cut .
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
For all its interest in storytelling, the narrative itself can be a little leaden, the themes a tad insistent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The dollar index DXY is a tad lower, as oil futures CL.1 give back early gains and gold futures GC00 trade around $4,020 an ounce.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
We might do a tad better elsewhere, but we make an effort to keep on good terms with Greasy Sae.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
From Time Magazine Archive
You git my idy, do you?—little tads, you understand— Jes' a wishin', thue and thue you, that you on'y was a man.
From Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education by William Suddards Franklin
Every one of you little tads," he went on coolly, waving his hand at the gathered group, "is a skate who teases this little girl.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
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