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Working in a busy NICU, he loves how a cake can bring joy to the ward and has won over the nurses with his bakes.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Our Noble Selves” is in part a workplace comedy, going behind the scenes to reveal the absurd politicking surrounding things such as the festival’s cake competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Moments after he blows out the candle on his cake, John’s father places a rifle in his hands.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Durian "tastes just as sweet as cake, without the greasiness and heaviness".

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

It was full and round as a loaf of Gypsy cake, and bright enough to cast long, dancing shadows on the grass.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

There was a handful of other witches in the small café, sipping on tea and nibbling on dainty cakes in the shape of different animals.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

The remains of burned homes and vehicles along the scenic coastal stretch were caked in a layer of sludge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

I cast a sly look to the girl standing next to me, dressed in a skirt suit, her young face caked with enough makeup to age her well beyond her years.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

"It was just a horrible feeling to walk in the middle of nowhere," she said with sand caking her clothes, adding that she feared for her unborn baby after her ordeal in the desert.

From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023

The rain and fish goo caking my shoes has already begun to harden.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 17, 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

A man named Gajendra Singh Quiriyal — the village’s grand pradhan, or leader — fell to the ground and convulsed on the fire’s edge, caking himself with ashes and embers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

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