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Of the memorable onstage moments in my career as a panel moderator, John Turturro successfully picking my pocket in front of a live audience might take the cake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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

Elliot shrugged as he popped a bite of cake in his mouth.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Eventually, he was getting ghosted for food-preparation jobs, including at a company that sells frozen crab cakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

But it does make mistakes when Vera wants to talk about knitting, often mishearing essential words and offering conversations on "biscuits and cakes" and "music, television, the garden or something else".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The launch episode was described as "one of the most disastrous openers ever" by Metro's Adam Miller, external - but luckily he was only referring to the cakes.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The grill leans into comfort foods and Americana with crab cakes, spinach artichoke dip, a Lucas-favorite chopped salad, jumbo-prawn cocktails, mac and cheese, and pigs in a blanket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Plunging one hand into her pack, she brought out three thin, reddish-brown cakes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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

Over the weekend, Santa Barbara County’s roads were caked with mud and trees were uprooted amid heavy rain, but no major injuries were reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Ona’s bare feet were already caked in dirt.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

"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

I feel jagged streaks of mud caking onto my face.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed