tattoo
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“Nobody is going to get a tattoo, but hair grows every day,” Fonseca said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Catherine Hibbert, 44, waited almost 20 years to get her first tattoo.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I'm more bothered that England hasn't won the World Cup than I am to have a tattoo on my leg," the 36-year-old said, adding: "It's not bothering me. It's just a tattoo."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The tattoo even has a crown on it, strengthening her belief that she’s right where she’s supposed to be, debuting for the new Women’s Pro Baseball League’s Los Angeles Queens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
When I get on the other side of Jonesy, I see she’s had someone draw another mermaid tattoo on her right shoulder.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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For Rideaux, the tattoos have layers of meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Thirteen years later, Bauers has a beard, tattoos and is in his seventh major league season as the first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then we applied temporary cat tattoos onto our arms, channeling our inner teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now, celebs like Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran are covered in tattoos, with more than 50 each.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s a weird mix, everything from white-collar criminals to guys picked up on traffic stops to real, hardcore criminals covered with prison tattoos.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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
Almost an hour into the conversation, the comedian reveals that he has Joan Didion’s author photo tattooed on his chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Indeed, my mantra through much of the decadeslong campaign had been—to borrow a phrase that at least one ardent activist actually tattooed on her arm—“There is no marriage without engagement.”
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
The longtime CIA operative had exfiltrated the families of spies from the most repressive of Middle Eastern regimes and tattooed the word “ARGONAUT,” an homage to seafaring heroes from Greek mythology, across his right forearm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Hideo murmurs, running one of his hands along the length of my tattooed arm.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Just days before, South Korea's top court had overturned its 1992 ruling that defined tattooing as a medical act - bringing to an end Korean tattooists' decades-long fight for legitimacy.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
However, she warned that this sort of tattooing could be complex.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
She did have her tattooing equipment, she said, but was planning to ink a fellow tattoo artist, not to work professionally.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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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