baker

as in chef
someone who bakes bread, cakes, etc. I'm a very good baker, especially of pies. She's a successful baker who opened a chain of bakeries.

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Recent Examples of baker The baker who wakes before dawn for sixty years. Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025 What do the bakers who aren’t baking do? Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025 While the competitors enter as individuals, their goal will be to get on– and stay on– the strongest team by any means necessary, because in this game the bakers must create incredible edible works of art to grow their teams and avoid elimination. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025 The court previously sided with a with a website developer and a cake baker who opposed providing certain services to gay customers because of their religious beliefs. Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for baker
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Noun
  • So does Stagier Bar, with creations like dumplings filled with lomo saltado, a Peruvian dish of sautéed beef that hints at the chef Joel Baeza’s Latin American roots.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Area chefs will compete for the title of best burger.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Every cook should have a roll of parchment paper around for lining cookie sheets when baking and lifting brownies and meatloaves out of their pans.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In a lot of cases shared in the book, these people were home cooks.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Baker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baker. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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