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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But like the spark that ignites a giant bonfire, that battle was the beginning of something new.—
Sayantani DasGupta
February 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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Please avoid any activities that may cause a spark or a flame; any flame that ignites has the potential of spreading rapidly.—
Michael Autovino,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 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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Adds to Your Daily Caffeine Amount Drinking boba made with caffeinated teas like black, green, and oolong tea can contribute to your total caffeine intake for the day.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
19 Feb. 2026
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Drinks include soft drinks, fruit teas and boba tea lattes, as well as a full bar serving draft beer, cocktails and NA beverages.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
4 Feb. 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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In all areas of life, optimism lights the spark, while discipline keeps the fire burning.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Mar. 2026
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Traditional camping lights that rely on PIR suffer from the same faults that annoy homeowners whose security lights blaze into action at two in the morning when a cat saunters past their garage.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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This is the kind of journalism that makes people distrust anything the news media tell us, and potentially wrongly inflames the public.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Why vocabulary avoidance creates the space populists fill European governments spent a decade learning that sloppy language inflames prejudice.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Each chaperon would be staying with six or seven children in a dorm room outfitted with bunk beds; there were four showers to be shared among the adults and children.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms starting Tuesday night and continuing for the rest of the week.—
Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Bakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bakes. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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