COOKS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of cook

as in misrepresents

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data

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as in happens

to take place wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

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cooks

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noun

plural of cook

as in chefs

a person who prepares food by some manner of heating the hearty meals prepared by the cook at summer camp

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The Italian mother who is a loving mother, a mother hen who cooks well. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 The brilliance of this recipe is how everything cooks together in a sheet pan, even the walnuts. — Emily Paster, Midwest Living, 18 Aug. 2026 Dark meat cooks more slowly, stays juicier, and is forgiving if temperatures fluctuate. — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2026 Stone built the restaurant to give cooks room to grow beyond the stove, whether that is making charcuterie in-house or working the live fire that the restaurant cooks everything over. — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Have any of you guys been haunted by the frankly upsetting scene in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in which Circe cooks what can only be described as a very messed up stew? — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 July 2026 Torres seasons the pork with lots of black pepper and garlic, and cooks it low and slow for around five hours. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 To make sure the mixture cooks all the way through, add hot water into the baking dish surrounding the ramekins — just halfway up. — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026 After a research trip to Texas steakhouses, Clark switched his kitchen from broiler to hardwood grilling, drawing inspiration from Gallagher’s Steakhouse in New York, his favorite, which cooks over hickory. — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 28 July 2026

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Employees said servers had agreed that tips collected from takeout orders would go to the cooks. — Ivan Taylor, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026 These are purist dishes that tell the story of place as only cooks from those locales can. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026 World Central Kitchen cooks will make the food in a central location and food trucks will distribute it around the city. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 Boneless pork loin marinates overnight in a mix of brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce, and curry powder—a marinade that pulls triple duty as a baste while the roast cooks and a glossy sauce to pass at the table once it’s sliced. — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2026 The tacos are kind of silly, and those cooks shouldn't need to have even more dishes to learn. — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 For cooks whose oven use falls somewhere in between heavy and light use, plan to clean the racks every three or four months. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2026 Dausch and his team created a data-forward automation layer that changed the workflow, telling cooks not to make the pizza until the system knew with greater certainty that further down the chain, a driver would be available for pickup. — John Kell, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 How one’s meal is eaten is up to each diner, but Quintana and the cooks in the kitchen eat it like a taco, putting chunks of the meat, a spoonful of rice and salsa and a helping of the onions into a tortilla. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026

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If the public agrees with the FTC’s plan, personalized pricing could be found to violate the FTC Act when a seller misrepresents a price as static or widely available when it is actually personalized.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
Still, that correction has been used to manipulate the study data in a way that significantly misrepresents miscarriage risk associated with Covid-19 vaccinations.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

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Masala y Maíz, co-founded by chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval in 2017, has been hosting such pay-what-you-can events since 2020, when many people were struggling to make ends meet and many restaurants were closing.

— Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2026
The company has been introducing new products and redesigning packaging to attract more home chefs.

— Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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Because of its large field of view, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help researchers better understand dark matter by capturing how the phenomenon's gravity bends light and distorts a galaxy's shape.

— Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Saliva collects at the mouthpiece and distorts the notes, making the blasts sound hoarse and off-pitch.

— Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorts

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The highway to get there is a single-lane road for miles and miles and miles, and there’s sagebrush all around.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
There is a lot riding on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s speech here Friday morning at the Fed’s storied annual retreat in the Tetons.

— Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of is

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There comes a point in every woman’s life when a mid-calf floral skirt starts looking suspiciously like the best thing in your wardrobe.

— Georgia Brown, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2026
In addition, each figure comes with extra sets of hands and accessories related to each of the characters.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of comes

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Here below, France’s own long-drink-of-water goalie Robin Risser does his best Beckham follow-on act with a stately Louis Vuitton carry-all with their trademark leather trim at the stress points.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Fazio wants a bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in schools; so does Lamont.

— Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026

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