tan
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"All of them were tremendous, and when we do any series I have this room with the monitors. I'm like a weirdo just applying fake tan, watching," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Mangione, wearing tan jail garb, told the judge that after enduring severe pain, and witnessing others with similar experiences, he learned of the company’s investor conference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Wearing a tan jumpsuit, he read a prepared statement in Spanish in which he extraordinarily urged young people to turn away from violence.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
To the west in Duarte, an old tan rotary phone with a very long cord hangs on a tree in a garden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
She had hazel eyes, tan skin, and long brown hair.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Bong has given the leader TV aspirations; the makeup team has given him orange tanner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
He was also tanner and had shaved his head.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023
The state supplies 6 percent of the world’s king, snow, tanner and Dungeness crabs, per the institute.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022
Also on Monday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a small Bering Sea crab harvest of more than 2 million pounds of tanner crab will open Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
Panicked and exhausted, I had scattershot visions of the widow and my almond tree, the tanner, and the monks of my old village so far away.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Sen. Rick Scott will face off against one of Florida’s tannest mothers in the GOP primary this election cycle.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Q: Is Sutter the tannest man in sports?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2014
Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
They left with healthy tans, a target of 35 medals and a plan to take over another Olympics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The nights are drawing in, the tans are fading and we all need a bit of sparkle in our lives as we head into autumn.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
Pumped-up lips, spray tans, hollowed-out cheeks and false lashes are just some of the characteristics of the “Mar-a-Lago face” that Donald Trump adores in his women.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2025
I don’t see them, but I see that half the kids have tans from spring break.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Very much like an election, in other words, only one populated with women who were scalpel-sculpted, lifted, tanned and tucked to surgical specifications.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
To the looksmaxxers, these peptides aren’t about health; they’re for shedding fat, building muscle, clearing up skin, and even getting tanned.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
Within minutes of the announcement, memories of the elegant and tanned designer began to flood social media.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
His face was so tanned from their time on the coast of Africa that the scar on his lip looked like a chalk mark.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
I found Sedona Quantum Consciousness online, via an advertisement for its Cell-Well Medbed, which appeared in photos to be a souped-up tanning bed.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
They also proposed displaying cigarette-style images at sunbed shops and tanning salons to dissuade people from using them.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
He did, however, quickly stop using MT-II, the tanning peptide that years ago was dubbed the “Barbie peptide.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
How big it is and all the malls and tanning salons and even an indoor miniature golf course.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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