cook-off
- a variation of cookoff.
Example Sentences
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Some let slip their secrets during the actual cook-off, when host Sarah Rankin interviews them as they stir away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
Joining them will be a cook-off called “America’s Culinary Cup” with Padma Lakshmi and “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
After making Welsh lamb and bara brith for dessert in the cook-off, the BBC show was won by 51-year-old Wynne.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
They follow her around the bend and behind the castle, where we see a kitchen set up, and everyone immediately discerns there will be a cook-off.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023
“What? Mandoo challenge! We should get both our grandmas to do a mandoo cook-off and we’ll be the judges, cool?”
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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