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as in to distort
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data
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as in to happen
to take place
wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house
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Recent Examples of cook
J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Sauces can also make veggies easier to cook.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Santucci also mentions their weight, which is another reason these aren’t the best option for cooks who plan on doing a lot of walking.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Verb
My grandmother cooked a lot of really good Mexican food.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Sauces can also make veggies easier to cook.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
There was no majordomo or maid or gardener or cook, no conditioning coach or groomer or therapist or secretary.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Santucci also mentions their weight, which is another reason these aren’t the best option for cooks who plan on doing a lot of walking.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cook
Verb
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Some items may become distorted or break down over time if washed with the wrong materials.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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Trump’s communication strategies are already setting a global precedent, encouraging other politicians to adopt similar theatrical and polarizing tactics that distort or deny facts.—
Andrew Rojecki,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The last time this happened in the Championship before this season was 2013-14, when Derby, Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Wednesday and Yeovil Town all failed to win any of their first five home matches.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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And while the end result was once again pretty anti-climactic, there were actually some other notable things happening in episode 5 of Survivor 49, so let’s make like Nate and MC on the sandbags and get to work.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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La Bamba’s chefs are dialed in to classic cuisine, and Jefe’s nacho tower is a thing to behold.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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This ancient technique recently caught the attention of chefs at Alchemist, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen, after someone noticed that milk with an ant in it started curdling in the fridge.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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And, though users can make the most of lackluster AI moderation (Grok Imagine) or figure out clever ways to circumvent guardrails (Sora) in order to misrepresent famous people, the greater danger probably comes from videos that purport to capture events involving unknown parties.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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The study found that AI tools routinely misrepresent news content in all languages, territories, and across AI platforms.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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There are a lot of very respectable academics that have done a lot of really amazing work in Black Studies and Africana Studies.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There was a casino, Grandy said.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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There aren't a ton of great options in free agency, though there may not be too many choices at all via trade either, as most teams have their starter and backup quarterbacks locked in and won't be looking to part with either at this point in the year.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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Chelsea shared on Instagram that Maximus spent eight days in the hospital before being able to come home.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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With that immense wealth comes a responsibility to give back to Louisville and the world, several members of the family told the Courier Journal.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Cook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cook. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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