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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
Whataburger teamed up again with country music star Lainey Wilson for the free-biscuit offer after tapping her as its official brand ambassador in 2025.
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Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2026
Whataburger's Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit has an all-white meat chicken strip on a warm buttermilk biscuit with a drizzle of Honey Butter sauce.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Bake biscuits until deep golden brown underneath and golden on top, 18–20 minutes.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Feb. 2026
Whether they’re served plain, with ham, or with fried chicken, there has to be a basket of biscuits on the table!
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
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Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2026
Whataburger's Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit has an all-white meat chicken strip on a warm buttermilk biscuit with a drizzle of Honey Butter sauce.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Bake biscuits until deep golden brown underneath and golden on top, 18–20 minutes.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Feb. 2026
Whether they’re served plain, with ham, or with fried chicken, there has to be a basket of biscuits on the table!
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biscuit
cookie
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Whole fruit, for example, behaves very differently than cookies or candy.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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In her hometown of Nara, souvenir shops sell towels emblazoned with her slogans, key chains, stationery, even cookies bearing her likeness alongside that of her political idol, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Biscuit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biscuit. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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