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bakery

[bay-kuh-ree, bayk-ree] / ˈbeɪ kə ri, ˈbeɪk ri /
NOUN
cooking business where baked goods are produced
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What does a bakery owner from San Francisco have in common with a retired British Army officer, a newly-qualified Scottish lawyer, a US Marine veteran, an Edinburgh artist and a teacher from Fife?

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Weston family, worth billions, is a Canadian-British food-business clan that traces its roots to a bakery business founded in Toronto in 1882.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“You’ve got air-conditioning fans on at the bakery so the air blows on the dough during proofing. It gets a skin on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

No one at the bakery asks for identification.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

A bell jingled as a customer left the establishment next to the bakery.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Here, she shares the bakeries and markets where she stocks up on pantry staples and the secrets to her almond-butter toast and homemade pesto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

These ranged from coffee shops, bakeries and laundry services, to lawyers, councils and holiday parks.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The only real crowds are to be found in the daytime -- at banks, cheap bakeries and outside the Spanish consulate, where hundreds clutch papers and wait to get off the island.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Especially at bakeries and cha chaan tengs, Cantonese diners.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

We can’t find any bakeries, so we settle for a nearby grocery store, one of those fancy ones where a bag of organic apples costs more than our rent.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez




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