flake
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Its steel surface—unlike a coating that can flake off—is hardened through a process called nitriding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Due to tiny differences in atmospheric conditions, each flake will create a unique pattern.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
Any while we’re on the subject of flavor, level up your loved one’s spice game with Flatiron Pepper Co.’s chili flake blends.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
All three of these modes are the most common ways in which conventional composites can internally flake and crumble.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The provoking girl was picking one last flake of confetti off her front fur.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
“I went from so-and-so to so-and-so, trying out studios, making promises I couldn’t keep. But all that stuff over the weeks just kind of flaked away.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
Or take a bright yuzu marmalade: pair it with black sesame seeds, flaked coconut, a drizzle of coconut cream, a swirl of tahini, and a scatter of lime zest.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
Tender flaked blue crab and summer squash add sweetness and depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Mr Glauser said while his first choice remained Cadbury Flake 99, when they are unusable he turns to a German alternative marketed as "milk chocolate flaked sticks".
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
The sea-green color was broken up by segments of white where the paint had flaked off, shaped like continents on a map.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
Before the hosts can begin flaking it, however, the show pauses to consider why Americans eat so little fish compared with people in Japan.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Qubein, the newly appointed president, took a tour with his two college-age daughters and saw rust flaking off an old shower head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
It was white all over, but the white layer seemed to be flaking off.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
Soon a soft outline of new skin forms around the cuts, peeling and flaking for a while, until one day, you wake up, and there is no scar, just your skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
In the dim candlelight, her body, crouched like that of an animal cowering in fear, cast an oblong, eerie shadow on the flaking whitewashed wall.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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