Bake-Off
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Origin of Bake-Off
Example Sentences
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When their younger sister, Jeanne, dies of cancer at age 74, they express their grief with a furious bake-off.
D’Amaro won a challenging bake-off for the job against Disney’s entertainment co-Chairman Dana Walden that has been the talk of Hollywood for more than a year.
Those films then advanced to a formal bake-off.
From Los Angeles Times
In early December, SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen began privately telling some investors that the company was considering an IPO in 2026; later that month banks began their bake-off pitches to the company to lead the stock offering.
Investment banks are scheduled to make their initial pitches this coming week in what is known as a bake-off, according to people familiar with the matter, representing the most concrete steps the rocket maker has taken toward what would be a blockbuster IPO.
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