finalized or completed, as in, “That last version we sent out wasn’t fully baked, we’ll have to update it”; evokes the last step in the preparation of foods that require an oven, or a kiln-dried clay object that is now ready for use; the words ‘done’ or ‘finished’ are manifestly clearer but lack its insidery blitheness; related to crisp, used to describe something that has reached a sufficient level of clarity or precision
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