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  • present participle of ice.
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icing

[ahy-sing] / ˈaɪ sɪŋ /


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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

Any enrichment and information is icing on the cake.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Ogwumike just delivered the icing on the cake.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

Your Social Security is the icing on the proverbial retirement cake.

From MarketWatch May 13, 2026

What Scooter would do then was make catfish faces by squeezing a string of white icing onto each one.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli



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