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Recent Examples of tabby
Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
The shots include a picture of the tabby cat wedged in a tight spot under the car's hood and an image of a rescuer petting the feline after freeing the animal.
—Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The grey, striped tabby on Vito Corleone's lap wasn't actually in the original script.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Loki is tabby and white while Onyx is a brown tabby, both are neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
The shots include a picture of the tabby cat wedged in a tight spot under the car's hood and an image of a rescuer petting the feline after freeing the animal.
—Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
The Feb 16 post opens with footage of Crush, an orange tabby sitting outside a closed door.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The grey, striped tabby on Vito Corleone's lap wasn't actually in the original script.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabby
Adjective
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The talk show host is dressed in a colorful striped shirt with a black blazer and black pants, while Saint John rocks a fashionable white dress with black polka dots.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Researchers from the San Francisco Estuary Institute found the chemicals in striped bass, largemouth bass, leopard shark, white croaker, white sturgeon and other fish collected between 2009 and 2019 throughout San Francisco Bay.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
20 May 2025
Noun
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Male kittens, also like most other male mammals, have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.—
Gayoung Lee,
Scientific American,
15 May 2025
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The team anticipates caring for the kitten for at least 10 months, officials said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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There are housecats and alley cats, Brawley said, and then there are tigers and lions.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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That seemed as incongruous a combination as a nightingale harmonizing with an alley cat.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Tabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tabby. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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