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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

About 25 minutes later, I gave it another few minutes to brown, scattered my already-chopped scallions over the top and sat down to a breakfast that felt vaguely café-quality on a Monday morning.

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

The lights flickered, signaling it was time for lights-out, and I made a mental note to tell Elliot about it at breakfast the next day.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

The feds operate more than a dozen food assistance programs, which provide grocery money for new parents and their toddlers, as well as free school breakfasts and lunches for lower-income children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

‘I’ve ordered three breakfasts at the cafeteria,’ she says by way of a greeting.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

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

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

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

The plans he rearranged to come here weren’t just sleeping late or breakfasting with friends.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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