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Recent Examples of tan Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law’s interview Saturday on her Fox News show with Charlamagne Tha God has really gotten under POTUS’ thin and artificially tanned skin – and The Breakfast Club co-host is lovin’ it. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2025 While all of their leather comes from U.S. sources, some is tanned in Japan and then reimported to the U.S. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2025 Especially when that someone else is tanned, beautiful, and regularly gifted Westman Atelier contour sticks? Morgan Sullivan, Vogue, 31 July 2025 Dom Amore: Geno Auriemma is tanned, rested, reloaded to get UConn women a baker’s dozen Geno Auriemma has been mostly out of sight since the UConn women won the championship. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for tan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tan
Verb
  • Like any tubing mascara, Badi Lash wraps lashes in flexible, smudge-proof polymers that darken and lengthen them.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of seeking help, her niece lashed out.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That could look like gliding your fingers down them, kissing, licking, or gently biting those areas.
    Essence, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Go from the base to the tip with your tongue, kiss it, lick it and remember most of us have difficulties cumming just with oral.
    Ian Kumamoto, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tight end completed a pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes for a 37-yard score in the fourth quarter and whipped out some moves in the end zone to celebrate.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • People also experimented with brown sugar, oat milk, or whipped foam to mimic the cookie’s sweetness and texture.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The most notorious, in 1978, saw the late queen hide behind a bush in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to avoid Nicolae Ceaușescu, having already removed anything that the Romanian dictator could steal from his room following a warning from Giscard d'Estaing, the then French president.
    Ian King, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Other newborns were given away by their grandparents who conspired with doctors, priests and nuns to hide a daughter’s socially embarrassing pregnancy.
    Rafael Romo, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Heeled, bubbled, square-toed, strapped or leathered out with metal accents like Longoria’s, the shape is proving its range.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Lucy Bronze’s icon status was reaffirmed throughout England’s 2025 European Championship-winning campaign — from strapping up her own leg in extra time to her absolutely leathering home a penalty in the quarter-final shootout win against Sweden.
    Ali Rampling, New York Times, 31 July 2025
Verb
  • Not the grand slam that had Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal pounding his fist into his glove as Thomas circled the bases and Progressive Field erupted.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Eighteen students who fled from the shooting took shelter at a home just down the road, after an initial group of them pounded on the door asking for help, resident Don Cygan told 9News.
    Katie Langford, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Gallagher brothers have spent the better part of the past 15 years pelting each other with insults.
    Alex Edelman, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • When pelting rain and lightning began on Friday, Smith and the team evacuated the main festival grounds around 1:30 p.m., sending fans to their vehicles in the campgrounds.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The sharp drop in mortgage rates owes in part to government data showing a significant decline in hiring, which has heightened expectations that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates and in turn put downward pressure on borrowing costs, some analysts told ABC News.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Tan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tan. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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