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[bred] / brɛd /




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She’s since become an evangelist for eating the European way, documenting her diet of primarily pasta, cookies, bread and full-fat milk and butter, on trips to France and Italy for her 223,000 followers on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Back in New Jersey, dinnertime with his biological family feels as cold and stale as their meal of frozen peas and store-bought white bread.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Someone bought the last loaf of a bread I had not yet decided whether I wanted.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

If you take a loaf of bread as an example, first the grain is grown, harvested, milled and stored until it is ready to be taken to a factory.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

There couldn’t have been enough flour to bake two loaves of bread.

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

For this sandwich, I wanted ciabatta because it is perhaps the most pillowy of the sturdy breads.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Not a basket of breads you’ll feel compelled to eat, nibble by nibble, or some roast that will eventually grow horns and crawl out of the refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

"You will see fast food, Indian breads and curries, desserts, and whatever else people have been sending," said Kaanita, a 21-year-old student.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Some cereals and breads are also fortified with it, helping people who do not eat meat get enough.

From Science Daily May 27, 2026

A man with a tray of round flat breads stacked sky-high grinned at Liyana through the car window when their eyes met.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Several Argentine restaurants proudly serve the milanesa - an Argentine dish of breaded beef or chicken which is thought to be one of Messi's favourites.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

But many customers gravitated toward the breaded shrimp, and executives didn’t want to disappoint them.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

She takes a bite of a breaded cheese stick and stretches the mozzarella, like, a foot and a half away from her mouth.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2025

On Jan. 24, Wegmans issued a recall for its store-brand frozen, breaded chicken breast nuggets over possible contamination with extraneous material, specifically bone fragments.

From Salon Jan. 30, 2025

“Mass purchasing power makes the big difference. For example, breaded veal cutlets.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Many all-you-can-eat menus lead with heavy, low-cost carbohydrates like pasta or thick breading to trigger fullness before you’ve reached the break-even point on higher-cost proteins.

From MarketWatch May 14, 2026

When not working shifts at Echo Park vegetarian restaurant Elf Cafe, Kopushyan toiled in his home kitchen with spice blends for four and a half months, obsessively tinkering with breading, seasoning and frying.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2025

"I was half way through breading fish for tea, it ran through the three bowls which I had to throw away," Donna said.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2025

To boost their flavor, mix whatever spice blend you have on hand into the breading before coating the chicken.

From Washington Times Aug. 22, 2023

She finishes breading the final croquette, then glances at her wristwatch.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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