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Recent Examples of sunbaked
Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses.
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Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
The delegations, escorted around town and guarded by scores of Swiss police, met for at least a dozen hours on both days of the weekend at a sunbaked 18th-century villa that serves as the official residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
—Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
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Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
The delegations, escorted around town and guarded by scores of Swiss police, met for at least a dozen hours on both days of the weekend at a sunbaked 18th-century villa that serves as the official residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
—Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.
—AFAR Media, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunbaked
Adjective
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That lack of precipitation, combined with record high winds, contributed to the parched conditions that allowed the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires to explode out of control in Los Angeles in early January, killing 31 people and destroying 16,000 homes and other buildings.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2025
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That’s all the better for parched skin that needs an instant hyaluronic-acid fix, or hair that needs a quick, wash-free zhuzh after the gym.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Stephen Freeland’s pumpkins are growing in 14 acres of bone-dry soil.—
Asher Redd,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Allow the soil to go bone-dry before watering.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Sunbaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunbaked. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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