cake
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Now, almost 40years later, as I watch people cut into my banana cake, I see it all— independence, grief, hope, joy.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
New Great British Bake Off presenter Nigella Lawson is also on the front page alongside a chocolate cake, as she says "eating is my superpower."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
I’d never had cake before, but it turned out to be a sort of bread that was sweet and crumbly and moist.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
With funnel cakes in the shape of her beloved butterfly and fashion exhibits with eye-popping heels and wigs, Dolly Parton’s theme park has history, entertainment, reverence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The ingredients are accessible, the substitutions sensible, the salmon cakes plausible weeknight fare.
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
She reached into her pockets, emptying out the handkerchiefs and placing the cakes next to them.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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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
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
Bird after bird swooped and splattered, and the RECO’s eyes were instantly caked in filth.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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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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