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breakfast

[brek-fuhst] / ˈbrɛk fəst /
NOUN
first meal of the day
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If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

At breakfast, Collins is wearing a patterned turquoise jacket over a matching dress and high-heeled black leather boots.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Under new school food standards, fibre and wholegrains will also be increased, and breakfast clubs will have to follow nutrition rules for the first time, with schools also being monitored.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Soybean oil appears in salad dressings, mayonnaise, baked goods, infant formula, snacks and fried foods; soy lecithin emulsifies chocolate and bread; and soy protein fortifies energy bars, breakfast cereals and canned soup.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Duane sauntered over to the mouth of his cave and snapped off a hanging icicle for breakfast.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Lyne hosted breakfasts for women working in New York’s technology sector, informal gatherings that grew, in a matter of months, from fewer than a dozen people to more than 100 attendees, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

‘I could now eat three breakfasts on end.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than when they had breakfasted.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 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

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

Like Mr. Clutter, the young man breakfasting in a cafe called the Little Jewel never drank coffee.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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