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Recent Examples of sunbaked
The couple was murdered that same day On a sunbaked afternoon in the quiet hills of Encino, a nightmare unfolded behind the white stucco walls of a music-world power couple’s upscale home.
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Danielle Bacher, People.com, 21 July 2025
Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses.
—Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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.
—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
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Danielle Bacher, People.com, 21 July 2025
Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses.
—Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunbaked
Adjective
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The parched air, the strange sounds, the relentless wind rocking the trailer like a mechanical bull.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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These rocks are well exposed in the parched badlands of Wyoming, crisscrossed for more than a century by dinosaur hunters.—
Paul C. Sereno,
The Conversation,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The masks are made from hydrogel, which, Dixneuf says, is particularly well-suited for dehydrated, puffy, and tired eyes.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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No chills, only thrills this Halloween as Phoenix is in for a warm, breezy and bone-dry holiday evening.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Freeland’s pumpkins are growing in 14 acres of bone-dry soil.—
Asher Redd,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Sunbaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunbaked. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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