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Recent Examples of dessert
To cater to a diverse downtown crowd, Social Brews also duals as a café with an espresso bar, pastries and breakfast sandwiches; a restaurant serving appetizers, burgers and desserts; and a bar pouring craft cocktails.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Syrupy sweets gleam in the windows of dessert shops around Athens, but skip the tourist-magnet displays and go to Feyrouz.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
In time, the apple’s proliferation on American soil and the ubiquity of apple pie on American menus would help turn the dessert into a patriotic symbol.
—Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
But hot ice cream, transformed into a warm, pourable, sip-friendly dessert.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Syrupy sweets gleam in the windows of dessert shops around Athens, but skip the tourist-magnet displays and go to Feyrouz.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
In time, the apple’s proliferation on American soil and the ubiquity of apple pie on American menus would help turn the dessert into a patriotic symbol.
—Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
But hot ice cream, transformed into a warm, pourable, sip-friendly dessert.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dessert
Noun
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The first prototype of the squishy candy debuted in Germany in 1922.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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But this time, the familiar faces on the lane have swapped out tinsel and snowmen for candy corn and jack-o-lanterns in Haul Out the Halloween.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The sweets wore adorned with a frosted pink Labubu.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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But, as a girl, she was fixated on sweets for a sense of comfort and reward.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Dessert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dessert. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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