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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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The front-of-house staff always seem to be navigating the aftermath of a complicated breakup between two polycules, but the breakfast sandwich is truly good enough to make the interpersonal intrigue part of the charm.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

After a three-hour chat over breakfast, they decided to create a venture-capital firm, Draper International.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"The pope had a good night in the hospital. He got up and had breakfast," the Vatican said in a short statement on Telegram.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Students who reported healthier habits, including regular physical activity and consistent breakfast consumption, also tended to demonstrate greater psychological flexibility and resilience.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

She was dangerously thin, I felt, for an expectant mother, and several times I brought her a portion of my own breakfast bread.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"I have weekly breakfasts, we have a tent at events like agricultural fairs," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 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

“It’s a place to help veterans work through the VA, to help veterans job source, to help veterans come together for Taco Tuesdays and breakfasts and dinners,” Chandler says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

I’d have to skip three breakfasts for that.

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

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

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

As the next day was Saturday, most students would normally have breakfasted late.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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 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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