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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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However, it said children would still be able to get milk through breakfast schemes and free lunches.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Despite considering the two options, the Welsh government said children "would continue to have opportunities to access milk through existing school breakfast and lunch provision, although access would depend on participation in those services".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

“You can really show that you’re a global citizen and that you’re a sophisticated foodie by having congee for breakfast, or shakshuka,” Forrest says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

But most of the time, it’s a pressed juice, English breakfast tea with warm milk and honey and a blueberry muffin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mama was fixing breakfast and Daisy was setting the table.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Means demanded stricter limits on added sugars, protein in breakfasts and 100% whole grain products, changes that roughly quadrupled the cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

For years, when I remembered those breakfasts, I focused on all the times I had said no.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

People may still be waiting for a result while tucking into their breakfasts, rather than waking up to find out who has won.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The girls did not rise up and jostle themselves into a happy, wriggling line to get their breakfasts, as Penelope remembered.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

Far back behind them stood the high place where they had breakfasted.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

For a Depression-era teenager accustomed to breakfasting on stale bread and milk, and who had eaten in a restaurant only twice in his life, the Manhattan was paradise.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand


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