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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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A Scarborough bed and breakfast owner has said businesses like his will face an "uneven playing field" if a so-called tourist tax is introduced in North Yorkshire but not in neighbouring East Yorkshire.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Whether it be breakfast bacon from local purveyors like Barossa Fine Foods in South Australia’s Barossa Valley or a sticky date pudding with a side of Indigenous wattleseed ice cream.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

On an average day, we woke up around 6:30 a.m. and ate a small breakfast before heading to a set of two to five sites.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Like their predecessors, they meet most weeks for breakfast and were well acquainted before joining the government.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

I thought Mama never would get breakfast ready, but she finally did and I set a new record for the time it takes a fourteen-year-old boy to eat a meal.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Customers ordered full English breakfasts and Guinnesses and sang national anthems.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Many people are reconsidering their Caesar salad lunches and berry breakfasts as cases of cyclosporiasis, the explosive-diarrhea illness, continue to rise in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The visitor levy, which comes into effect on Friday, will see 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 Jul. 23, 2026

The worst were SpagBol breakfasts, around sunset, when the mere thought of more noodles made her never want to eat again.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Hazzard said the baboons were “well and resting” after their foiled escape attempt and had breakfasted on bananas, capsicum, apple and bread.

From The Guardian Feb. 26, 2020

In the morning, congratulating myself on not having used the emergency phone, I breakfasted on cloudberry doughnuts and homemade dried reindeer.

From The New Yorker Apr. 22, 2019

We had breakfasted there a little while ago.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2016

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

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

An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2025

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

Like Mr. Clutter, the young man breakfasting in a cafe called the Little Jewel never drank coffee.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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