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Recent Examples of tabby
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
This little purr machine is Fernando, a 3-year-old tabby cat with soft stripes, a gentle heart and a shy soul.
—Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Steve Garbarino, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Like a tabby lingering at the threshold, his path wavered in and out of the state, never quite settling.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Think: jealousy, clinginess or unpredictable moods (looking at you, tabby cats).
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
This little purr machine is Fernando, a 3-year-old tabby cat with soft stripes, a gentle heart and a shy soul.
—Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Noun
And in the 1963 Czech cult classic The Cassandra Cat, a tabby exposes the truth by making people’s skin change color based on their moral character — red for love, orange or violet for hypocrisy.
—Steve Garbarino, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Like a tabby lingering at the threshold, his path wavered in and out of the state, never quite settling.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabby
Adjective
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The silk weave and striped pattern are sophisticated in a bohemian kind of way.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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So are oily fish — like anchovies, herring, salmon, sardines and striped bass — some nuts and seeds, and soybeans and tofu.—
Barbara Mantel,
NBC news,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Some even suggested to Polnitz that the school should get therapy kittens for staff and students.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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Raise the kitten and puppy together.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Tabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabby. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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