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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 May, arsonists incinerated an 860,000-square-foot megamall in Warsaw; an investigation found the blaze was ordered by the GRU.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
17 Feb. 2026
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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
Adjective
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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
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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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Forecasters said the parched conditions will continue through the spring.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2026
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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
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DeepSeek’s surprising rise ignited debate over whether US export controls had failed.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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Engineers changed how fuel is both injected and ignited.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 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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Remove the dying leaves and then the pot can be moved to a cool, dimly lit spot and just kept barely moist until the soil can be worked in the spring.—
Dawn Pettinelli,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2026
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Hart scored 10 points in the game’s opening five minutes against a Doc Rivers defensive scheme that ignored him behind the three-point line, and Brunson pounced after his teammate lit it up from deep to start the game.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 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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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 2 Mar. 2026.
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