tabs 1 of 2

plural of tab
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as in bills
a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due I don't have any cash on me, so can you put this on my tab?

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as in expenses
the amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount asked the server to put our dinners on separate tabs so we could each pay for our own meal

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tabs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tab

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Recent Examples of tabs
Noun
The truth is that restarting Chrome has not interrupted tab usage for the longest time now, and your open tabs will simply reappear after the security patch has been applied and the browser pops back into action. Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 The filings also show the Administration, the White House, and Trump himself keeping unusually close tabs on the investigation. Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Profiles display users' basic information (name, age, height, and ethnicity), along with tabs to view their photos and read their Q&A. Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026 The removal of standard internal tabs leads to a drop in internal electrical resistance. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026 During these sleep periods, New Horizons remains in a largely unpowered but stable mode, while its flight computer keeps close tabs on the spacecraft’s condition and sends back a weekly beacon to flight controllers. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 Your brain has several tabs open, but none of them are loading, Virgo. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 Although there were no indications of impacts or tampering, the series of maneuvers show how the world’s three leading space powers are committing resources and precious maneuvering fuel to keep close tabs on each other’s orbital assets. Gerry Doyle, Fortune, 13 July 2026 The average person keeps five to 10 browser tabs open at once, a small detail that shows just how fragmented daily attention has become. Allison Palmer july 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabs
Noun
  • Without his salary, paying rent, buying food, phone credit, covering transport costs and paying water bills have all become daily struggles.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But members of the public have increasingly aired out fears about land usage, questions about how data centers affect electricity bills, and worries about their environmental impact.
    Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Apple’s lawsuit also names a former iPhone engineer, Chang Liu, who joined OpenAI in January.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sometimes someone else names a department that stopped existing two reorganizations ago.
    Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Four accounts across four services were involved, and Hugging Face’s forensic timeline documents 17,600 distinct actions across four days.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Trial testimony indicated clients transferred upwards of $2 million to Engle, expecting the money to remain in those accounts until their loans were funded.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Sinner, the 2024 Miami Open champion, became the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to complete the Sunshine Double — winning Indian Wells and Miami titles back-to-back — and the first in history to win the double without losing a set.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Let people follow problems across functions, not titles up a ladder.
    May Habib, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This assertion kicked off more than 20 minutes of contentious back-and-forth, in which Kennedy made a number of false and misleading statements about a range of topics including measles, autism and Lyme disease.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Zoll and Pohlad each followed suit with statements that basically made Buxton untouchable.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • My mom styles her maxi dresses with sneakers like white Vejas or sandals like this Sorel pair (which carried her through Italy pain-free), depending on the day’s activities.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
  • Though the British royal family member regularly styles the same silhouette — long sleeves and a midi hem with slight definition at the waist — she’s known to play with pattern and color in equal measure.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 16 July 2026
Noun
  • The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • According to city documents, the Development Process Committee conditionally approved the annexation, rezoning and variances in July.
    Emily McLeod, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For generations, athletes have been treated as if motherhood stamps their athletic identities with an expiration date.
    Lynda Lin Grigsby, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • The Council's 20% test widens that gap and stamps it as compliant.
    Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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“Tabs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabs. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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