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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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In her brief breakfast remarks, Raman, an L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

They turn up at weddings and kids’ birthday parties, in freezer aisles and bakery cases, at country clubs and holiday breakfast tables.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

“On the weekends, I’ll wake up with the kids on Saturday mornings, I make them breakfast, and then I sit in the window box while the kids watch ‘Bluey,’” she previously told House Beautiful.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Meeting up for breakfast also tends to be a bit more wallet-friendly as it's usually just one course and diners get the same catch-up time with friends and family, she adds.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

I finished eating breakfast long before Mama and Papa did, and I started getting my monkey-catching gear together.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Today, I’m more interested in the parents, the journeys, sacrifices and terrible fast food breakfasts that got them there.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

If approved, the state would have a constitutional mandate to provide free lunches and breakfasts for all K-12 public school students.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Customers ordered full English breakfasts and Guinnesses and sang national anthems.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

We sit inside the cellar and finish our breakfasts.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

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

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 packed up our tents, breakfasted on raisins and Snickers, and set off into the deep woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Two majors after that, he won the 2018 PGA Championship in St. Louis after breakfasting on Sunday with a two-shot lead he treated without tremble.

From Washington Post May 18, 2019

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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