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  • noun Plural form of tan.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tan.

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Examples

  • The guest rooms are nicely appointed in tans and browns, as if created by a saddle maker, and I was pleased to find that from my bed I could watch travelers wheeling their luggage to the check-in counters below.

    Greetings from Airworld! 2006

  • New research is rewriting our understanding of how skin tans, and may point the way to methods to protect fair-skinned people from melanoma.

    Archive 2006-09-17 Edward Willett 2006

  • New research is rewriting our understanding of how skin tans, and may point the way to methods to protect fair-skinned people from melanoma.

    "Medically induced skin tans": an oxymoron? Edward Willett 2006

  • Hassenpfeffer Archive: "Medically induced skin tans": an oxymoron?

    "Medically induced skin tans": an oxymoron? Edward Willett 2006

  • The guest rooms are nicely appointed in tans and browns, as if created by a saddle maker, and I was pleased to find that from my bed I could watch travelers wheeling their luggage to the check-in counters below.

    Greetings from Airworld! 2006

  • Much like the many anime mascots and "- tans", mecha musume are part of a popular trend of personifying abstract ideas and inanimate entities through embellishing characters with various indicative features.

    Anime Nano! 2010

  • After the first million years, the surface "tans" much more slowly.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

  • After the first million years, the surface "tans" much more slowly.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

  • After the first million years, the surface "tans" much more slowly.

    Spaceflight Now 2009

  • After the first million years, the surface "tans" much more slowly.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

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