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Recent Examples of tabby
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
In a viral TikTok video posted on October 2, owner Erin McCormick (@erinmccormick__) shared a video of her orange tabby named Sherlock lying at the top of the staircase.—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 The 5-week-old orange tabby, named Mackie after the 7-Eleven worker who called in the tip, is now in foster care with one of his rescuers.—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tabby
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.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Christopher Walken, who once gifted an Abyssinian kitten to a reporter during an Interview magazine profile, has raised cats for decades.
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Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
That also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence.
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Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
30 July 2025
To this day, the meanest alley cat in London testifies to the eternal return of cat life.
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