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cake

[kayk] / keɪk /
NOUN
bar of something
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Choose lower-lactose foods, eat dairy with a meal, and use lactase pills when needed, and you can have your cake and eat ice cream too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Now the Chinese also want to take a part of the cake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Natalie Parker, who joined as a baker while on maternity leave in 2024 and now runs the group, said the thought of a child not having a birthday cake was "heart-breaking".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“If anyone asks, that chocolate cake was half gone when you found it.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

Requests are posted in a private Facebook group where volunteers can take them on, often tailoring cakes to a child's favourite characters or interests.

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

Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

The off-white cloak caked in clay is deliberately drained of all color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

I walked through the rows of the garden and saw that everything had come up; the earth had grown somewhat too hard and caked, but that had done no damage yet.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

From National Geographic ● Jul. 17, 2023

The rain had stopped on Sunday and rescue teams and local volunteers were trying to pump out buildings and sweep away mud caking the streets before it could set hard under the sun.

From Reuters ● May 21, 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

The small green creatures, less than an inch long, are caking patio furniture with silk and even getting inside people’s homes.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2022

Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman




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