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  • noun Plural form of cakewalk.

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Examples

  • This is the vision that enthralls the War Party – "World War IV," as they call it – a series of "cakewalks," short sharp wars on Iraq, Syria and Iran to eliminate the Islamic terrorist threat to us and Israel for generations.

    READING BETWEEN THE LINES News from Mad Plato 2008

  • This is the vision that enthralls the War Party – "World War IV," as they call it – a series of "cakewalks," short sharp wars on Iraq, Syria and Iran to eliminate the Islamic terrorist threat to us and Israel for generations.

    Archive 2008-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2008

  • As for the usual suspects, "cakewalks" may pose their biggest threat.

    ScrippsNews 2009

  • Gone are the days of military "cakewalks," shock and awe.

    Spero News 2009

  • Stretched across four weeks, it's an interminable but oddly inconclusive parade of cakewalks and mismatches.

    World Cup's Unlikely Heroes Jonathan Clegg 2011

  • "People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America—cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western," he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000.

    White R&B Legend Traveled 'Chitlin' Circuit' With Pride Stephen Miller 2012

  • Yet he acquitted himself quite nicely when it came to the soft melodies of "Sorry-Grateful," the hat-and-cane cakewalks in "Side by Side by Side" and the acrobatic karate moves with Ms. Plimpton in their book scenes.

    In the Good 'Company' of Sondheim Fans Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Within relatively recent history, WWI, the Great Depression and WWII were no cakewalks; each was extremely difficult on physical, emotional and existential levels.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Socially-Conscious Stress Management Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • Within relatively recent history, WWI, the Great Depression and WWII were no cakewalks; each was extremely difficult on physical, emotional and existential levels.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Socially-Conscious Stress Management Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • It is, most recently, the result of two wars that were supposed to be cakewalks, Katrina, the crash, and the phenomenon of a federal government that seemed less and less competent attempting to do more and more by passing bigger and bigger laws.

    The Big Alienation 2010

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