cake
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On the Place des Lices, the central square that hosts twice-weekly farmers markets, Scarlett Grande Librairie is a hybrid bookstore-cafe with good coffee and homemade cake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The hulking structure looked like a giant, putrid sheet cake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The group does not sell direct to consumers but provides cocoa and chocolate preparations to major firms around the world, including Hershey, Mondelez and Nestlé as well as cake, cookie and ice cream makers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
In the financial economy, leverage is high with a layer cake of debt at the investor, fund, instrument and underlying investment level.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I don’t need Babs to pay me. Getting to have free tea and cake at Birdie’s is more than enough. And I…I like hanging out with you.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Around her are patio tables displaying the kind of food the shop carried: pies and cakes, what appear to be stuffed tomatoes, baguettes, sophisticated deli salads, gorgeous hunks of cheese.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Selling like hot cakes — Taylor Swift’s wedding trash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
A chef serving up afternoon teas for some of Wimbledon's Centre Court and No.1 Court guests has defended his decision to put Welsh cakes on the menu instead of classic favourite, the scone.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Her husband can’t hold a job, so she starts baking cakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
They didn’t dare risk the salmon cakes; the bear would have smelt them from many daywalks away.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
One close to the seafront, where the near-200-year-old golf club gives way to a spectacular view across the Firth of Forth to the Bass Rock, has its keypad caked in a sticky black ooze.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Gardner previously said that more than 100 firefighters used hoses to put a “wet line” around the Balcom fire perimeter, while bulldozers cut away vegetation in its path and aircraft caked the ground with retardant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
A frame outside the auditorium door displays five photos of the Mayer’s dilapidated conditions in the ’90s, with the theater caked in rust and mold, a shell of the version I’m standing in now.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Some of them are barefoot, caked in dirt, barely able to stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2024
It was caked in dirt, but when he pulled it out, the soil fell away and it glimmered white as pearl.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The rain and fish goo caking my shoes has already begun to harden.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 17, 2023
The rain had stopped on Sunday and rescue teams and local volunteers were trying to pump out buildings and sweep away mud caking the streets before it could set hard under the sun.
From Reuters ● May 21, 2023
It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The small green creatures, less than an inch long, are caking patio furniture with silk and even getting inside people’s homes.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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