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baked

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verb

past tense of bake

Example Sentences

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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
  • Some e-waste is sent to other countries, where materials may end up incinerated or buried in a landfill.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The shuttle and its precious human cargo were gone, incinerated in a fireball, debris raining into the Atlantic.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Set the scene Peru's sunbaked northern coast is no secret among those within the country—or surfers and backpackers around the world, who come to chase the mythic Pacific waves that crash onto the tawny sand dunes and desert-like shoreline.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • In Worcester, which lay more than 40 miles from the Charlestown line, a parched and dusty rider arrived at the square in front of the church, where his horse collapsed in exhaustion.
    Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The Hydrating Body Bar Massage was another standout, which used the Kate McLeod Body Stone—a solid moisturizer—to soothe and rehydrate my parched winter skin.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Rihanna has been busy building her lingerie empire, Savage X Fenty, and collaborating with Jahleel Weaver to create a portfolio of show-stopping looks and a maternity style that’s ignited its own fashion movement.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Some Israeli hostages, taken during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that ignited the war, have said they were held at Nasser Hospital, the largest in southern Gaza.
    Reuters, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The result is plotless, tonally pristine, and utterly absorbing, a bone-dry workplace comedy of the highest (monastic) order.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
  • If water continues to pool on top of bone-dry soil, then change the potting mix.
    Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Those very words created this country and are the spark that lit every revolution in American history.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Jackson reinforced Blackness as beautiful and Black people as somebody, and that lit a fuse in people like Gant.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Watson had kindled a social media friendship with the NBA star and received an invite to one of his exclusive pickup runs.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026

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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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