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bake sale

American  

noun

  • bake sales
    plural
  1. a sale of homemade, donated baked goods, as by a church or club to raise money.


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Not cloying, not milky, not trying to be liked by everyone at the bake sale.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

The life-limiting condition will eventually leave him reliant on a wheelchair and in need of specialist home adaptations, so the family are raising money pound by pound, bake sale by bake sale.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

As evidence, there’s a bake sale where her treat is accused of having the dreaded “soggy bottom,” triggering an epically well-staged food fight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

“It was easy to imagine her as your next-door neighbor or maybe a fellow parent at a bake sale at your kid’s school,” Roxborough says.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

“Wait. I thought you were on the bake sale committee.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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