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Recent Examples of sunbaked
The delegations, escorted around town and guarded by scores of Swiss police, met for at least a dozen hours on both days of the weekend at a sunbaked 18th-century villa that serves as the official residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
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Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
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Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunbaked
Adjective
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Forecasters say Wednesday’s rain could be preceded by rapid warming of the land, triggering lightning that could start wildfires across a parched county.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Around you the parched land and empty sky point less to the idea of death and more to labors in the afterlife.—
Fred Marchant,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Allow the soil to go bone-dry before watering.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
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The high-altitude, bone-dry landscape, with its dazzling days and spectacularly starry nights, formed twenty million years ago.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
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