as in chip
a small flat piece separated from a whole
sprinkle the cake with coconut flakes
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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
the lady with all those cats is sweet, but kind of a flake
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Recent Examples of flake
Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Keep in mind that some nonstick coatings contain potentially harmful chemicals and often become damaged over time and flake off.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Here are some big shows to see outdoors before the first snow flies in the metro area, which averages in mid-October, with flakes already falling in the high country.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Besides being exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to remove, paint can also damage brick by trapping moisture within the wall assembly leading to flaking paint and possible structural damage to the building.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Keep in mind that some nonstick coatings contain potentially harmful chemicals and often become damaged over time and flake off.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
Neither area is the rust-flakes-and-heaving-asphalt scene of 1970s memory but instead a relatively modern experience, though very much not at Six Flags scale.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Here are some big shows to see outdoors before the first snow flies in the metro area, which averages in mid-October, with flakes already falling in the high country.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
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scale
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Her leadership was instrumental in scaling OpenAI from a research organization to one of the most important AI companies in the world.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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Building the next Spotify Momentum – and the ability to constantly iterate – often comes down to bagging cash to scale.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Flake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flake. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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