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a sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round
The afternoon tea was accompanied by an assortment of biscuits.
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Recent Examples of biscuit
Fried chicken, biscuits, cinnamon apples, corn pudding, and country ham all arrive in heaping bowls meant to be passed around.
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Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
El Moro turns typical tavern fare on its head, with eats like rainbow trout, pork sugo, and duck confit biscuits and gravy on offer.
—Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
Those include Biscuit Love, serving breakfast and lunch with biscuits made from scratch, and Monell’s, a family-style restaurant located in an 1880s Victorian house in Germantown.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
The colors, which the company said were inspired by the restaurant's eggs and biscuits, stayed close to the original.
—Ali McCadden, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
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Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
El Moro turns typical tavern fare on its head, with eats like rainbow trout, pork sugo, and duck confit biscuits and gravy on offer.
—Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
Those include Biscuit Love, serving breakfast and lunch with biscuits made from scratch, and Monell’s, a family-style restaurant located in an 1880s Victorian house in Germantown.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
The colors, which the company said were inspired by the restaurant's eggs and biscuits, stayed close to the original.
—Ali McCadden, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biscuit
cookie
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Families can enjoy painting a watercolor on the terrace with local artist Nancy Willis or a cookie-decorating class with Pastry Chef Celine Plano.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In another video, Twiggs appears to be seen wearing a yellow hat with ears opening a cookie tin.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Biscuit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biscuit. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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