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as in picnic
something easily done or dealt with
today's assignment is cake compared to yesterday's
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Recent Examples of cake
Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
For breakfast, Diddy was likely served breakfast items like cereal, fruit and a breakfast cake, according to the outlet.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Not only does the sheer setting and smoothing powder help manage oil production and smooth over texture, it’s packed with nourishing ingredients that hydrate the skin and clear out congestion—sans caking and creasing.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Breakfast items include a pumpkin loaf, pumpkin spice croissant bread pudding, and assorted desserts such as pumpkin cake, chai cider panna cotta, orange cardamom cake, banana butterscotch torte, and maple pumpkin bourbon cookies.
—Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
For breakfast, Diddy was likely served breakfast items like cereal, fruit and a breakfast cake, according to the outlet.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
Part 2 departs from the grimy realism of the first film and pursues an altogether lighter tone, albeit one still caked in skin-flaying mayhem.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Not only does the sheer setting and smoothing powder help manage oil production and smooth over texture, it’s packed with nourishing ingredients that hydrate the skin and clear out congestion—sans caking and creasing.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cake
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McDonald’s temporarily stopped selling Quarter Pounders in about one-fifth of its restaurants until testing ruled out beef patties as the E. coli source.Brenda Goodman, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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The company has also ruled out Quarter Pounder patties as a potential source of the outbreak.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Plus, no two flights are the same, with sightings, routes, and picnic spots constantly changing.Shaun Stanley, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pack a picnic and some drinks and spend three or four hours touring the city from the deck, looking for bands floating down the river and playing on rafts.Linnea Covington, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Swirl to coat the bottom of the pan and add the sliced red onions.Claudia Alexander, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The volumising, panoramic mascara has a similar inky black appearance as the nail polish used at Marc Jacobs, but instead, a thick, contoured brush is used to sculpt and coat each lash.India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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Balcony doors are flung open to the salty Mediterranean breeze.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Though assembly isn’t exactly a breeze, the tree looks great in a room full of houseplants, and the individual branches can be popped in or out depending on your or your cats’ preferences—there are enough to cover the whole tree, or just partially, as my cats Circe and Scylla prefer.Medea Giordano, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Lila’s makeup is smeared all over her face; the windows of the apartment are wide open, the wind rattling the empty rooms.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rubbing will smear the mud and cause a bigger problem.Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
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Additional accent stones are encrusted into each side of the band to create a majestic-looking piece that sparkles in the sunlight.Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
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The statement jewelry also supported a large coin pendant, which was encrusted in a plate of diamonds and emeralds.Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 June 2023
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Those forests cover the Front Range from just south of Interstate 70 to the Wyoming border.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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One of our colleagues who lives north of the park says that, this morning, the cars parked on her block were covered in a fine layer of sooty ash.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2024
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“Cake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cake. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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