tanning bed
noun
US
: a machine that people lie in while being exposed to bright light in order to darken their skin
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Her after-school job as a seamstress and her sister’s tanning bed come in handy.
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Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2024
And a tanning bed is not a great stand-in: Psoriasis is treated with UVB light, and tanning beds give off mostly UVA light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Feb. 2024
And what happened to Lisa after that tanning bed fire?
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2024
Kardashian then shared Allure's Tweet and responded by defending her tanning bed use.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
Even today, new diagnoses are the legacy of the lack of awareness of sun damage in the 1950s, as well as the sun tanning and tanning bed culture of the 1980s and ’90s.
—Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
The reality is that just one tanning bed session before age 35 can increase your chances of developing melanoma by 75%.
—Refinery29 Staff, refinery29.com, 30 May 2023
After Sheila ended up in a tanning bed time machine sometime in the future, she’s been coming back to this moment and reliving the same day over and over.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 Apr. 2023
Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2024
And a tanning bed is not a great stand-in: Psoriasis is treated with UVB light, and tanning beds give off mostly UVA light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Feb. 2024
And what happened to Lisa after that tanning bed fire?
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2024
Kardashian then shared Allure's Tweet and responded by defending her tanning bed use.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
Even today, new diagnoses are the legacy of the lack of awareness of sun damage in the 1950s, as well as the sun tanning and tanning bed culture of the 1980s and ’90s.
—Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
The reality is that just one tanning bed session before age 35 can increase your chances of developing melanoma by 75%.
—Refinery29 Staff, refinery29.com, 30 May 2023
After Sheila ended up in a tanning bed time machine sometime in the future, she’s been coming back to this moment and reliving the same day over and over.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 Apr. 2023
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“Tanning bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tanning%20bed. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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