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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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While striped skunk is edible, Coalition Brewing warns against its strong odor, scavenger diet and susceptibility to parasites.—
Stuart Dyos,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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The striped croissant has stripes of raspberry baked in parts of the dough and a raspberry fruit filling inside.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After almost getting run over by two cars in heavy rain, a tiny black kitten was saved by a kind stranger who stopped to help him and ended up taking him home.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Christopher Walken, who once gifted an Abyssinian kitten to a reporter during an Interview magazine profile, has raised cats for decades.—
Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Tabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabby. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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