baker's dozen
Example Sentences
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Analyzing the baker's dozen of mummies has only reinforced the team's conviction that the seemingly modest mice ascended the volcanoes without Incan assistance.
From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023
They’ve already retired the jerseys of 12 players, and with Bryant’s two and Pau Gasol’s No. 16 retired in March, that’s a baker’s dozen of retired numbers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2023
Pondering “what makes a mistake larger than life, so all-encompassing that your life itself becomes a failure,” she had set out to research a baker’s dozen of “tragic architects” in America and Europe.
From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022
Here are a baker’s dozen of Moira Macdonald’s favorite romantic dramas about love, from literary period pieces to contemporary love stories.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2022
His very own baker’s dozen, he would say, grinning.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
