cake
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The inquest heard the neighbour, called June, had spent Christmas morning having coffee and cake with the family before the tragedy unfolded.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Danny Everett serves up his homemade Belle Loreve cake to guests at his home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
“If we play our cards well, we can have our cake and eat it too,” Van Nieuwerburgh said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Network Rail invited locals to discuss the next steps over tea and cake this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
“When I have a birthday, you are picking my cake, girl,” Legend tells her, and Boo’s face shines.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Great America, the beloved hometown theme park for generations of Northern Californians, has announced there will be one more season of roller coasters and funnel cakes before the gates close for good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Two rhino calves have celebrated their first birthday with cakes made of pellets, carrots and salad leaves.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
I tried a sample from a company called Voyage Foods, and I realized its strength is adding chocolaty vibes to cakes and confections, not replacing solid bars of milk chocolate, much less dark chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Nor/Ma’s industrial-greenhouse feel, and Scandinavian sweets on offer, might seem less authentic than the stuccoed rooms and layer cakes over at Gerbeaud, or the outright grandiosity of the New York Café.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Razi found the last remaining mangosteens and some crispy rosette cakes that were squashed at the bottom of the basket with a few slabs of sesame toffee.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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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
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
In the harsh light of the morning, her cream-colored powder looked caked and dry.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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
I feel jagged streaks of mud caking onto my face.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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