breakfast
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But for adults, breakfast is now looking more like dinner amid the protein-heavy diet trend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
I’ll hit the gym and then, if we’re having a “family Sunday,” then that’ll mean we’re getting up and heading out to breakfast, either at El Torito or Brent’s Deli in the Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Ultra-processed foods include many everyday products, such as breakfast cereals, packaged bread, and instant soups.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
In one podcast episode, she described a breakfast area beside the kitchen, where a bench and the wall above it were intended to become a display for family photographs.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Mama was fixing breakfast and Daisy was setting the table.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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"I have weekly breakfasts, we have a tent at events like agricultural fairs," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Lyne hosted breakfasts for women working in New York’s technology sector, informal gatherings that grew, in a matter of months, from fewer than a dozen people to more than 100 attendees, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
For years, when I remembered those breakfasts, I focused on all the times I had said no.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
The breakfasts started in the Connecticut home of a partner in Goldman Sachs but grew so large they had to move to a local church.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
And yet, like many New Yorkers, I’ve breakfasted all my life on buttered rolls, wrapped in plastic, foil or wax paper and sold for about a dollar at any corner deli, bodega or coffee cart.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2017
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
He had risen early, breakfasted almost alone, and had spent the morning going over the notes of the case that was recalling him to London.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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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
Wipe with vinegar: Prep the kitchen and pantry for early breakfasting and quick lunch packing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2021
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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