Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bakes
Verb
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In Death by Lightning, his performance as Charles Guiteau incinerates any attempt to categorize the presidential assassin.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025 -
No, the King of the Monsters unleashes his fiery breath on the man and incinerates him instead.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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As greed ignites and alliances crumble, everyone is willing to kill for a chance at the money.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Bias masquerades as opinion, with no guidance and no intent to help.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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Burnout masquerades as ambition.—
Kelly Ehlers,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At the event guests had the opportunity to encounter Alice, enjoy boutique shopping, and indulge in teas, pastries, tea sandwiches, champagne, live music, and informal modeling.—
Rancho Santa Fe Review,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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The two fruit teas are the sunrise tea — strawberry fruit tea with orange juice on top — and the sunset tea — a mango fruit tea with a butterfly pea flower on top.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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While Martin Scorsese called it one of the scariest movies of all time, The Uninvited kindles a wonderful romance between Rick and Stella.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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The star of Big Little Lies confessed her new film, Caught Stealing, kindles a powerful yearning for some aspects of the era.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Josh lights several candles and crushes some Viagra in preparation for the arrival of one Alexis, but when the doorbell rings, there is no beautiful 26-year-old waiting for him.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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One lights a candle at the edge of the pit.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The episode inflames the diplomatic spat between the two countries that began over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments about Taiwan.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Sensational or biased language inflames opinion before readers learn the facts.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Preliminary forecasts show a chance of showers returning for the upcoming weekend and high temperatures remaining around the upper 50s.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
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The greatest chance of rain showers arrived by daybreak.—
Matthew Villafane,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Bakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bakes. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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