tanning bed
noun
US
: a machine that people lie in while being exposed to bright light in order to darken their skin
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The Skin Cancer Foundation drives home that even one tanning bed session is highly dangerous.
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Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Unless accelerated by a tanning bed, skin damage can take years, if not decades to develop, experts say, leaving today’s unwary youth at risk for early skin aging and lethal skin cancers such as melanoma.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2024
Lisa Frankenstein is an ’80s pastiche by way of Mary Shelley, with a broken tanning bed taking the place of the usual electrical lab equipment.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
Her after-school job as a seamstress and her sister’s tanning bed come in handy.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2024
And a tanning bed is not a great stand-in: Psoriasis is treated with UVB light, and tanning beds give off mostly UVA light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Feb. 2024
And what happened to Lisa after that tanning bed fire?
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2024
Kardashian then shared Allure's Tweet and responded by defending her tanning bed use.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
Even today, new diagnoses are the legacy of the lack of awareness of sun damage in the 1950s, as well as the sun tanning and tanning bed culture of the 1980s and ’90s.
—Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Unless accelerated by a tanning bed, skin damage can take years, if not decades to develop, experts say, leaving today’s unwary youth at risk for early skin aging and lethal skin cancers such as melanoma.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2024
Lisa Frankenstein is an ’80s pastiche by way of Mary Shelley, with a broken tanning bed taking the place of the usual electrical lab equipment.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
Her after-school job as a seamstress and her sister’s tanning bed come in handy.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2024
And a tanning bed is not a great stand-in: Psoriasis is treated with UVB light, and tanning beds give off mostly UVA light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Feb. 2024
And what happened to Lisa after that tanning bed fire?
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2024
Kardashian then shared Allure's Tweet and responded by defending her tanning bed use.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
Even today, new diagnoses are the legacy of the lack of awareness of sun damage in the 1950s, as well as the sun tanning and tanning bed culture of the 1980s and ’90s.
—Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
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“Tanning bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tanning%20bed. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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