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[tat] / tæt /




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Part of that healing process will involve leaning into the humor tat Dodd imbues in his delivery.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 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

In this tit for tat, though, California’s threats to respond have thus far proved ineffectual.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

The final tat disappeared and it became nothing but boom.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

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

They dress hip, they wear sneakers, they’re tatted and they’re more transparent, honestly, about their lives.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 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

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

Her skirt was turned back, showing a petticoat of red knitted yarn with tatting around the edge.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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