soft tick
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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You might hear the soft tick, tick, tick of your interest rate going up.
From Reuters
The species, Carios kelleyi, is known as a “soft tick” given its soft, leathery body, as opposed to “hard ticks” such as deer ticks, which can carry Lyme disease, per a university news release.
From Fox News
That virus could then travel via soft tick to domesticated hogs.
From Washington Post
That virus then could travel via soft tick to domesticated hogs.
From Seattle Times
You might hear the soft tick, tick, tick of your interest rate going up.
From Reuters
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