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Recent Examples of cakedAs for towels, they'll likely be soaked or caked with mud after every use.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025 Mud caked the walls and floors on the home’s bottom level.—Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025 But the experience with crypto mining, where GPUs are run inside dusty data centers that leave GPUs caked in dirt, were a catalyst for what became CoreWeave’s secret sauce.—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Filters are routinely checked when cars come in for service, and Wise said service techs increasingly find filters caked with residue.—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Shohreh Dupuis left her job as city manager of Laguna Beach two years ago, in the wake of a squabble with a city council member, a threat of a harassment lawsuit, and an inquiry into into how her house came to be smeared with feces.
Millais covered her body with flowers that signify love, pain, innocence, and faithfulness.
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Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
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