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After the dozens of well-heeled guests in attendance tucked into New York strip steaks and carrot cake, Kielpinski called on them to open their wallets and donate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Kennedy takes a stab at the salmon cake, brings one bite to his mouth and calls it “amazing.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
At first, when their boat of some 60 passengers landed in April after 15 hours on the water, they were taken to a reception centre and given cake and orange juice.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the image with the cake, she was wearing different clothes than in the pictures with the Red Cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Maybe he gave her my flavor preferences, but she’s the one who got the cake.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
When the cooking resumes, several salmon cakes have already been shaped and set aside.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Besides water, much needed for the hours spent sweating in the swelter, his firetruck is chock-a-chocolate block with gifts of cakes, fruit compotes and other kind offerings.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Ingredients to bake fairy cakes with buttercream icing usually cost between £10 and £15 - depending on what you already have in the cupboard.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Neither guy blinked at being instructed to join up with a reformed gangster who smelled strongly of urinal cakes to prank a former heavyweight champion prizefighter.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
A brief exam revealed the eagle was quite underweight and weak, and her feet were caked with mud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
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
A fisherman dived down in the water and brought up a clump of vegetation caked in dark slime.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025
As I am finishing up, Izzie walks in with his clothes all caked with mud.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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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