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cake

[kayk] / keɪk /
NOUN
bar of something
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Network Rail invited locals to discuss the next steps over tea and cake this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

On week one of the competition, Mahir landed star baker after he stunned TV judges Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood with his peanut and caramel chocolate stout cake.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

I’m not much of a baker, but there’s an olive oil cake in there that’s really, really good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"It's the icing on the cake of two great careers," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Either way, there would be cake, they reasoned, which was precisely why it was so hard to choose.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Alongside pineapple upside down cakes and chocolate chip cookies, customers can buy Phillips’s book about the case, “The Cost of My Faith.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The volunteers buy the ingredients, bake the cakes and deliver them, with the group only able to provide toppers, boards and boxes when it has managed to raise money.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Free Cakes for Kids Fareham and Gosport buys the ingredients, bakes and delivers cakes for young people whose families are unable to provide one.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

For readers who aren’t familiar with the brand, Paris Baguette sells what you might call European- and Asian-inspired pastries, breads and cakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The baker was hardly inclined to be helpful after that rude, wild-eyed fellow made such a mess in her bakery— and while she was in the middle of icing her Black Forest cakes, yet!

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

In “Digger,” he returns to serious cinema caked in prosthetics playing an oil baron who causes a global meltdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

A photograph showed the second man caked in mud, his hands pressed together in prayer, as rescuers carried him on a stretcher.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Footage of the five men shot on Wednesday showed them miserable and caked in mud, telling rescuers they were suffering chest pains and starving hungry.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

A frame outside the auditorium door displays five photos of the Mayer’s dilapidated conditions in the ’90s, with the theater caked in rust and mold, a shell of the version I’m standing in now.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

It was caked with the night dirt of Georgia and South Carolina.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"It was just a horrible feeling to walk in the middle of nowhere," she said with sand caking her clothes, adding that she feared for her unborn baby after her ordeal in the desert.

From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023

The rain and fish goo caking my shoes has already begun to harden.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 17, 2023

It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

A man named Gajendra Singh Quiriyal — the village’s grand pradhan, or leader — fell to the ground and convulsed on the fire’s edge, caking himself with ashes and embers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Mud flats near the banks, caking to dry clay, smelled of death.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker


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