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“If we play our cards well, we can have our cake and eat it too,” Van Nieuwerburgh said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“This is potentially more of a swan song for Xavier Becerra, the icing on the cake for a long and distinguished political career, and for Gavin Newsom, it was a stepping stone,” Rosales said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Choose lower-lactose foods, eat dairy with a meal, and use lactase pills when needed, and you can have your cake and eat ice cream too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

On week one of the competition, Mahir landed star baker after he stunned TV judges Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood with his peanut and caramel chocolate stout cake.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

I saw my aunts in Yonder, spinning their magic, Ida making rhymes and cake.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Does anyone know if Tom Brady likes pit beef and/or crab cakes?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Two rhino calves have celebrated their first birthday with cakes made of pellets, carrots and salad leaves.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Bouquets of banknotes or cakes decorated with currency are often ordered as gifts for weddings, birthdays, graduations and other celebrations.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

She filled her calabash and ate more of the honey-and-millet cakes.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

Her eye sockets were clotted with filthy slime, and the redness of her lips was caked and crusted as if she had vomited ancient blood again and again.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

"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

“The mud dried fast, caking up before Roald could pull it off. It was heavy like cement.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone