breakfast
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This request — asking Republicans to spend lavishly on weapons — should be as easy as talking Hegseth into another round of martinis at breakfast.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Down the street at D’s Thirsty Beaver bar, Danielle Rees is doing a test run on serving breakfast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Most of us think of orange juice as a simple breakfast habit, something you pour without much thought.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Goalkeeper Robert Sanchez also appeared on breakfast TV before the match.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
This morning feels like a hundred years ago; it takes me a moment to even realize what she must be talking about, the awkward breakfast.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Customers ordered full English breakfasts and Guinnesses and sang national anthems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Those staying in hotels, self-catering apartments, holiday lets such as AirBnbs, aparthotels, bed and breakfasts, guest houses and hostels are all eligible.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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
These breakfasts produce a rapid glucose spike and an insulin response early in the day.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
The church served free breakfasts and gave away bags of food to poor people.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
Administrations, breakfasted with editors, huddled with American nuclear experts, and briefed the Times editorial board.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
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
We hastily strung up the ultralight silicone-coated tarp we’d bought specially for the trip, and breakfasted under it in relative comfort.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
They had their shock treatments while we breakfasted in our rooms, and then they came into the lounge, quiet and extinguished, led like children by the nurses, and ate their breakfasts there.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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
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
The disorder left by the breakfasting bears had been cleared away.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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