variants
or cooky
plural cookies
1
: a small flat or slightly raised cake
2
3
: a small file or part of a file stored on an Internet user's computer, created and subsequently read by a website server, and containing personal information (such as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited)
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Examples of cookie in a Sentence
This recipe makes about two dozen cookies.
She put a batch of cookies into the oven.
Don't worry about her—she's a tough cookie.
You are one smart cookie.
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One of the available prizes for selling a certain number of cookies was a trip to Niagara Falls, a location that is special to the girl's parents.
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Josh Taylor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
By the time Lindsay was ready for the road trip, her car was loaded to the roof with king cakes, cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and a Praline king cake challah.
—Lindsay Baach Friedmann, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
The dessert table alone had four cakes, two types of brownies, and several cookie options.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
The Oreo Shamrock McFlurry combines vanilla soft serve with Shamrock syrup and mixes in Oreo cookie pieces.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
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Josh Taylor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
By the time Lindsay was ready for the road trip, her car was loaded to the roof with king cakes, cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and a Praline king cake challah.
—Lindsay Baach Friedmann, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
The dessert table alone had four cakes, two types of brownies, and several cookie options.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
The Oreo Shamrock McFlurry combines vanilla soft serve with Shamrock syrup and mixes in Oreo cookie pieces.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Cookie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookie. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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cookie
noun
cook·ie
variants
or cooky
plural cookies
1
: a small sweet flat or slightly raised cake
2
: a small computer file that contains information relating to websites a person has visited
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