tattoo
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Feldstedt, 30, has her own “Bunny” tattoo, which she says doubles as an excuse to pitch the novel to strangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"But when we showed them the body, one of the women realised it wasn't her husband because there was a tattoo on the arm."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Artwork by his son Naviyd is featured on the walls, while an enlarged drawing of a tattoo that Usher has on his chin has been turned into a decorative ceiling mural.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Nobody is going to get a tattoo, but hair grows every day,” Fonseca said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He has a neck tattoo that seems to practically throb with his fury.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Covered in tattoos, with his hair in a long white braid, the 35-year-old Australian DJ and former boy-band member looks more like an all-night raver than a children’s host.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Another horde, the Reapers, runs around shirtless to show off their thick black tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
For outsiders, Hegseth’s attempt at this version of manhood, complete with bad tattoos and workout videos, is cringeworthy.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The rumors were further fueled when one person commented that the musician’s signature hand tattoos were not visible in the video.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
I asked her once what her tattoos meant, and she told me art doesn't have to mean anything—it can just be pretty.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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In several of her novels, Ms. Mandel has had characters with beloved quotations tattooed on their bodies, a practice that inspired a real-life trend of the author’s fans being inked with lines from her books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Her father plans to have the phrase tattooed on him this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Every tattooed person he interviewed in the 2000s for his research cited David Beckham as their inspiration; the footballer made a statement when he got his first inking in 1999.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
There were two Chinese characters tattooed on the inside of her left wrist and one on her shoulder.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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“People started tattooing ‘Dios Por Delante’ on their forearms and neck and that’s when we realized that this was more than music, it’s a movement,” Joel said of the impact of the latter song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
While he sported multiple tattoos, these days “people are tattooing their entire faces—and then having surgery to remove their lips and ears, so they look like aliens.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Though the tattooing prohibition will no longer be a permanent feature of South Korean society, removing it completely may be a slow and painful process.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
However, she warned that this sort of tattooing could be complex.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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