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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
  • This part of the state is mostly scrubland, alternately windswept and sunbaked.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Though only an hour north of Dallas, the area looks nothing like the city’s flat and sunbaked landscape.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Winter is just days away, and our chronically parched hands are already taking a big hit from these dry, frigid temps.
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 19 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Hernandez made her only basket of the first half on a pull-up 3-pointer that ignited a 9-0 run and gave the Anteaters their biggest lead of the game at 16-8.
    Dan Arritt, Oc Register, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Her relationships with Paralympic athletes have ignited an interest in prosthetics.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • If water continues to pool on top of bone-dry soil, then change the potting mix.
    Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Friedman also mentioned the Wennberg deal, along with Philadelphia’s extension with Christian Dvorak (five years, $5.15 million AAV), as proof that Kotkaniemi’s contract could be palatable to teams in need of a center — a market that is bone-dry with several teams looking for help.
    Cory Lavalette, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Finally, two Olympic torches were lit two Olympic cauldrons, in Milan and Cortina, their flames at the center of shape-shifting spheres.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But, in the spirit of these unusually widespread Games, simultaneous celebrations were also held in the clusters of Livigno, Predazzo and Cortina d'Ampezzo, which — for the first time ever — lit a second Olympic cauldron.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • This is only slightly challenged by a flame kindled between Mindy and Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) earlier on in the show.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026

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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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