tai
noun
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major red tai, a food fish of Japan.
tai
1 American
[tahy]
/ taɪ /
noun
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tai
plural
TAI
1
British
abbreviation
Tai
2
British
/ taɪ /
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tai
1615–25; < Japanese ta ( w ) i, earlier tafi
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After we talk, she plans to do a bit of tai chi, for which she uses an app on her phone and which she wishes more people practiced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“We have decades of research. One review, in 2023, reveals that tai chi practitioners have a 24% lower relative risk of falling than older adults who don’t practice,” Swanson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The best part of her day is when she spends evenings practicing tai chi with a half dozen friends at a nearby park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Wind & Sea soon became an Orange County staple, serving seafood and its self-proclaimed “best mai tai in the world” on Dana Point Harbor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Jim thought he might attend a tai chi retreat.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
A successful global campaign against Iran may require Washington "to provide incentives" to Beijing to join it, said Lim Tai Wei, a professor and East Asia expert at Japan's Soka University.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Li visited Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year earlier this year, months after a massive apartment blaze in the north-eastern Tai Po district claimed 168 lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Water is soft but strong: There could be an intense hurricane or flood, but it’s also adaptable and pliable; it fills a space. Tai chi is water-like that way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
New hobbies equal new network: Perkins’s first real lead came from a five-minute chat with Bill Tai, an investor attending a conference in her hometown, Perth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
All that yoga and kung fo stuff Tai does must really work because she’s calm.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
The victims were named by Turkey's state-run news agency as TAI employees Cengiz Coskun, Zahide Guclu, Atakan Sahin Erdogan, Huseyin Canbaz, as well as taxi driver Murat Arslan.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the attack on TAI "heinous" in a post on X.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
TAI also plays a role in modernising older aircraft for use by the Turkish military.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
TAI is a key player in Turkey’s aerospace industry, designing, developing and manufacturing various aircraft for commercial and military use.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
"O please make haste and pull it out!" cried the TAI, pitifully, for he felt the pains in his throat coming on again; "I do so want to return the hook to the Mikoto."
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
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