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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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It’s hard to think of a major outlet where the Iowa auditor has not gone on a hunting trip and scarfed down breakfast pizza with a reporter.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

After breakfast, James B, who has been pretty consistently wrong with his theories throughout the series, continued his fine form, saying of Maya and Kenny: "I think they are the two most innocent."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The unusual illumination even fooled gold miners into thinking morning had arrived, prompting them to prepare breakfast shortly after midnight.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Then I find my way to the kitchen for a little breakfast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

I glanced at The World Awakens, sitting on the table beside my breakfast.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

"I have weekly breakfasts, we have a tent at events like agricultural fairs," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Edinburgh became the first city there to introduce the tax in July, with those staying overnight in hotels, bed and breakfasts and self-catering accommodation charged an additional 5% on top of their original booking cost.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Today, I’m more interested in the parents, the journeys, sacrifices and terrible fast food breakfasts that got them there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

If approved, the state would have a constitutional mandate to provide free lunches and breakfasts for all K-12 public school students.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

I’d have to skip three breakfasts for that.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Mitt Romney in 2012 famously declared in Mississippi that he'd just breakfasted on "a biscuit and some cheesy grits" — drawing groans from a crowd who knew he meant cheese grits.

From US News ● Feb. 19, 2016

The well-heeled passengers breakfasted on smoked salmon and pastries, then boarded an air-conditioned Cuban government bus for a day of touring the city.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2015

One day in May, Rigault breakfasted on Chateaubriand aux truffes; a few days later, the fare included bottles of Pommard, Veuve Clicquot, and Nuits-Saint-Georges.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

We hastily strung up the ultralight silicone-coated tarp we’d bought specially for the trip, and breakfasted under it in relative comfort.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013

She arranged two trays, one for Nivea, who always breakfasted in bed, and one for Rosa, who by virtue of her illness was entitled to the same treatment as her mother.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

A study published last week in “Communications Engineering” details a breakthrough in egg science that, if widely adopted, could alter the course of human breakfasting forever.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

Clients include breakfasting Qataris, construction and security guards off overnight shifts and, this week, tourists in soccer jerseys descending on the country, where foreigners, mostly migrant workers, form the bulk of the 3 million population.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2022

In the future, you could be breakfasting on false banana or snacking on pandanus tree fruit.

From BBC ● May 21, 2022

Two majors after that, he won the 2018 PGA Championship in St. Louis after breakfasting on Sunday with a two-shot lead he treated without tremble.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2019

The disorder left by the breakfasting bears had been cleared away.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander


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