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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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He's just been highlighting the high sugar content in various breakfast cereals while waving an empty box of a very sugary and chocolatey one at me.

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

Last Sunday night, my grocery order arrived without my usual breakfast sandwiches.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s just as good for a long breakfast as it is for an aperitivo later in the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He ate a quick breakfast to fortify himself before venturing down the hill to Handsome’s field where the musk ox stood sleeping next to the reflection pond.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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

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

Neighbors hosted pancake breakfasts and spaghetti nights to raise money for lawyers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

They sit down with their breakfasts, waffles all around.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

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

After they had breakfasted Gandalf decided to go on again at once.

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

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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