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[tat] / tæt /




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Before the game, Palmer said tat he tells his players to never take an opponent too lightly nor build it up too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"It started off in a proper 'us v them', tit for tat thing between the people and the council," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

He praised Powell’s avoidance of engaging in tit for tat with the president.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

“The concern for the public and for representative democracy is that you’re going to have a lot of tit for tat moving forward,” Skelley told Salon.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2025

It was those different rat, tat, tats that told the men which way to turn, how fast to march, when to load their muskets, and when to shoot.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

In his “6:16 in LA,” Mr. Lamar mentions the pizza restaurant Lucali, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: “My visa, passport tatted, I show up in Ibiza, Lucalis dwellings in Brooklyn just to book me some pizza.”

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

However, I am married to a woman who loves that place so much that she wants to get the logo tatted on her thigh.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

The tatted head of a ruby octopus peers though the patio fences of Reuben’s Brews in Ballard.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

“My favorite Laker growing up. I mean, it’s tatted on me. Mr. Kobe Bryant,” said Christopher, who raised his hand to display the Mamba insignia tattoo on his right wrist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

This short, tatted guy climbs into the Ring to a mix of cheers and boos.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Thousands of young women were given an education and a portable skill, their equipment — tatting shuttle, thread, needles, crochet hooks — small enough to fit in a pocket, and take to America.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016

From the outside it's kind of amusing to think of you as a prisoner in your own home as your mother-in-law takes over the porch with her tatting and smoking.

From Slate ● May 29, 2013

Or as the milestone is better known in body-art circles, tatting 300.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2012

Last year has to be one of the worst episodes of senatorial tatting in history.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2012

Even though I knew full well that I wasn’t any good at tatting, having this fact confirmed by strangers was not pleasant.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly


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