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bake

[bayk] / beɪk /
VERB
cook in oven
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A student taking part in the new series of the Great British Bake Off says he taught himself to bake after "stumbling across a YouTube video".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

In the middle of this identity crisis, I started to bake.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Costco chicken bake provides the filling inspiration.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Instead, I bake more banana chocolate chip muffins than Mom and I can eat, and I watch This Is Us on repeat.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Working in a busy NICU, he loves how a cake can bring joy to the ward and has won over the nurses with his bakes.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But while Tesla bakes that technology into its own vehicles, Wayve thinks selling its systems as an off-the-shelf solution to other automakers could be where the real money is in self-driving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

As Europe bakes under a second heatwave in as many months, Guterres delivered a speech in London that painted a stark picture of a planet that has just endured its 11 hottest years on record.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Analysts at KeyBanc suggested Monday that SpaceX’s stock price already bakes in sufficient optimism for the company’s ambitions.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Each batch of bricks bakes for fifteen hours, sending clouds of black smoke into the sky.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Starbucks’s espresso refreshers, matcha and artisanal baked goods showed “continued strength” in the quarter, CEO Brian Niccol said on the call.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

According to Intercontinental Exchange, 186,000 adjustable-rate mortgages readjust next year, increasing the monthly payment initially by a median $645, which will eventually turn into $754 after getting through rate increase caps baked into the loans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Duplicity was baked into the music from the beginning.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

That’s after several months of dryness and record-breaking high temperatures that have baked the state’s landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Sniffed the delicious odor of steak and meat loaf and baked potatoes.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

The cousins started the company with no formal baking experience, instead using data-driven testing to develop successful recipes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

When Mo Mahir, 22, from West Bromwich, was nine years old, he "found a video of a guy making a mug cake in a microwave", which he said ignited his passion for baking.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s when Harvard, the school that helped give the world baking soda and the forward pass, cooked up its greatest piece of ingenuity yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

You could soften the onion first if you prefer, but I liked the little bit of bite it retained after baking.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

I love baking, and dressing in loud colors, and being at school, where there are tons of kids and there’s always something going on.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan


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