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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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So Megan's kitchen is still full of fruit, vegetables, seeds and oats but there are now also breakfast cereals, crisps, biscuits and other processed foods too.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Sitting down for a filling breakfast, instead of mainlining a protein bar, can feel irresponsible.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

What time is breakfast and what do you eat?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Right after breakfast I called Rowdy and we lit out for the bottoms to look for the Lee family’s milk supplier.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Almost as soon as I had a kitchen of my own, I started making stupidly elaborate breakfasts for overnight guests and baking for community fundraisers.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Even as cases of cyclosporiasis rise in the U.S., you don’t have to avoid berry breakfasts and Caesar salads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

For a time he provoked a smattering of discussion over ham-and-egg breakfasts on the backstretch benches.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

He enjoyed a privileged childhood: in a 2014 column for the Nikkei Shimbun newspaper, he recounted how his elementary school classmates had teased him when he revealed that he breakfasted with his family’s “maidservant.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

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

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

It was hustle and bustle getting everyone washed and dressed and breakfasted.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

Bonus: This quirk makes stollen the ideal make-ahead treat for all your holiday gifting, breakfasting, and last-minute company needs.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021

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

Conclusion reached by the Annex while breakfasting at nine: this is a trial landing, like the one two years ago in Dieppe.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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