cake
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Since then, I’ve baked the cake for countless weddings, birthdays and gender reveals.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
TV critics have described Nigella Lawson as the "icing on the cake" of The Great British Bake Off, after the show returned for a new series on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Don Trump Jr.’s wedding had everything: a private island, fireworks, a Funfetti cake airlifted in from Florida—everything but the groom’s dad.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
In the movie, a carnival staged a publicity-stunt fake wedding in the whale’s mouth, capped by a whale-shaped wedding cake with tiny bride and groom figurines in the whale’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Then her mom cuts the cake, which has a penguin on top, and everyone gets a piece.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Alongside pineapple upside down cakes and chocolate chip cookies, customers can buy Phillips’s book about the case, “The Cost of My Faith.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
For readers who aren’t familiar with the brand, Paris Baguette sells what you might call European- and Asian-inspired pastries, breads and cakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I was reminded of the reality TV show “Nailed It!,” in which amateur bakers fail spectacularly to reproduce complex cakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We couldn't plan to have a party in Plymouth with balloons and cakes etc because we didn't know if we were going to be there," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
As planned, Penelope, Simon, and the children met Madame Ionesco in the Egyptian Room for a late breakfast of Gypsy cakes and tea.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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In “Digger,” he returns to serious cinema caked in prosthetics playing an oil baron who causes a global meltdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A photograph showed the second man caked in mud, his hands pressed together in prayer, as rescuers carried him on a stretcher.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Footage of the five men shot on Wednesday showed them miserable and caked in mud, telling rescuers they were suffering chest pains and starving hungry.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
Blanche throws her head back and walks, wobbly and caked with sand, the last few yards to her son.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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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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