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baked

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verb

past tense of bake

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Recent Examples of baked
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
  • 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
  • Solar recycling innovation Global plastic production exceeds 400 million tonnes annually, yet only about 18 percent is recycled, leaving the majority to be incinerated, landfilled, or released into natural ecosystems.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • This year, Stanko has been watering her parched meadow earlier than ever in her 50 years of ranching.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • One person died in an apartment fire ignited by a faulty e-bike battery in San José last week, authorities said.
    Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • That ignited a 16-4 run that stretched into the fourth and gave Boston its first double-digit lead of the game.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Retired farmer Gerald Haffner in Keenesburg has seen his neighbors struggle with a lack of water due to a bone-dry winter.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • The old woman’s face lit with recognition, and what, indeed, were the chances of this?
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Samuel Helenius and Alex Laferriere also lit the lamp.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • America's hopes for its first high-speed rail were kindled in 2008, when California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.
    Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This spectacular success kindled a desire in Hersheypark officials to invest heavily in thrill rides.
    John Haddad, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026

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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.

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