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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a cooked dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a meal that has been prepared and cooked, typically in a home or restaurant setting.
Example: "After a long day at work, I was looking forward to enjoying a cooked dinner with my family."
Alternatives: "a prepared meal" or "a home-cooked meal".
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They had a cooked dinner.
The gray gets a cooked dinner; I buy these precooked bird things from this company called Beak Appétit that I heat up on the stove.
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They gave me water to clean myself and drink, a freshly cooked dinner, and a bed to sleep in.
So sometimes, spending half an hour to make them a home cooked dinner is simply not an option.
They resolve the same way my family qualms would through frustration, an emotional conversation, and a freshly cooked dinner.
In a small cul-de-sac near Hillshire — or what in Memphis is called a "cove" — Rusby Amador cooked dinner for her three sons while waiting for her husband, a tile layer, to get home.
In his Park Avenue apartment, a Chinese chef cooked dinner parties for his friends - among them the novelist Tom Wolfe- and film people.
We could spend hours on the phone talking about the latest TV show, political scandal or parenting problem, usually while we cleaned a floor or cooked dinner.
He taught in the afternoons, had a cocktail at five, cooked dinner for Elise, and wrote in his study till dawn.
The night he returned, he cooked dinner on a grill, but burned everything to a crisp.
I was raised in an NPR household, those soft, steady voices a constant hum while we cooked dinner and drove around town.
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