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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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Efforts to win over new and lapsed loyalty members with digital offers — such as a $2 breakfast sandwich, and free fries with a $1 minimum purchase — helped attract more customers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Ultra-processed foods include many everyday products, such as breakfast cereals, packaged bread, and instant soups.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The Seaside Police Department received the tip about Bumper’s bizarre breakfast invoice in August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

I decided I would work out early every morning before breakfast at the club I managed, so I could then dedicate the rest of my day to my work.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

From the cook stove where she was fixing our breakfast, Mama smiled and said, “Knowing how desperate you are to get the planting done, I’d say it was going to rain.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

This charge will be an uncapped levy as a percentage of the cost of hotels, bed and breakfasts and other types of accommodation.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"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

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

I’d have to skip three breakfasts for that.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

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

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

He had risen early, breakfasted almost alone, and had spent the morning going over the notes of the case that was recalling him to London.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

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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