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Recent Examples of baked
Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers.
—Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baked
Adjective
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The masks are made from hydrogel, which, Dixneuf says, is particularly well-suited for dehydrated, puffy, and tired eyes.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In a Sierra Nevada canyon all but incinerated in the 2021 KNP Complex fire, a new forest of California’s beloved giant sequoias is now growing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Ninety-four percent of Rhode Island's sludge is incinerated, with the material going to either Woonsocket or a smaller facility in Cranston.—
Alex Kuffner,
The Providence Journal,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Interiors skew minimal and elemental (raw wood, concrete, metal) and spotlight a muted palette of sand and dusty olive green; shades that pull from the sunbaked landscape dotted with palms and agaves.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Mar. 2026
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This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Dozens of residents in two Colorado counties had to evacuate over the weekend as record hot temperatures and extremely low humidity fueled the rapid spread of fires in the parched brush.—
Brianna Sacks,
Washington Post,
24 Mar. 2026
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The region is so reliant on desalination that prior intelligence assessments warned damage to the infrastructure could force evacuations from parched cities.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Multiple fires broke out, ignited by falling power lines and other human causes.—
Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2026
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That ignited a high-speed chase — and the shootout that ended with Hill, Alexander, Ordóñez and Cutshaw dead.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Lunar rocks and soil offered novel insights into the moon’s origin and composition, and more recent analysis of previously untouched Apollo samples, as well as samples retrieved by robotic missions, revealed the surprising discovery of water trapped in rocks thought to be bone-dry.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Between freezing air outside and bone-dry heat indoors, moisture gets zapped fast, leaving behind frizz, static, and ends that feel crunchy.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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During the memorial service, Sigler lit four candles at the church, one in memory of each of the students killed in the crash.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Other people lit fireworks, and some were told not to throw objects at police.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Mar. 2026
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Traders and investors are laser-focused on the inflation being kindled by higher oil prices.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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If ‘Oxen’ occupies a region of Ulysses where Joyce’s exquisite ear for memorably musical sentences (‘Mild fire of wine kindled his veins’) takes a back seat to the leaden hum of meta-literature, that is no reason not to be awed by his chutzpah.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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