tat
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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
But neither side seems to regard the sort of tit for tat exchanges we have seen this week as marking a return to all-out war.
From BBC ● May 28, 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
He is tatted, burly, and often dressed in black, with just enough gray in his beard to scan as learned.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026
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
The only guy on set is a goofy, tatted actor fascinated by a shark video game.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
The tatted head of a ruby octopus peers though the patio fences of Reuben’s Brews in Ballard.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
His name will get tatted on somebody’s arm.
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
On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women’s Rights and making tatting.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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