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An example use of breakfast in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… part of that The Breakfast Club he and I …”
Breakfast is the first meal of the day.
the word breakfast occurs in english on average 67.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that breakfast can be often used in the following areas:
1) food and health;