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bake sale

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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

She cooks strange things for him — a school bake sale becomes a source of humiliation for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 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

Mount Carmel Missionary Circle prepares a bake sale to raise funds for Briggs v.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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