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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
The wheat and oats used in its debut product, the oaten biscuit, came from Home Farm at Charles’s Highgrove estate.
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 May 2026
The nose shows classic pot-still grain aromas of warm porridge, malt biscuit, and cereal sweetness, wrapped in vanilla and bourbon-cask oak.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Quickbreads are breads that are leavened with baking powder or baking soda, as opposed to yeast, including banana bread, zucchini bread, gingerbread, pumpkin bread, orange cranberry bread, cornbread, Irish soda bread and even muffins, drop biscuits and scones.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
Bojangles After declaring May 14 National Biscuit Day, Bojangles is offering a BOGO deal on biscuit combos from May 18 through May 24.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 May 2026
The nose shows classic pot-still grain aromas of warm porridge, malt biscuit, and cereal sweetness, wrapped in vanilla and bourbon-cask oak.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Quickbreads are breads that are leavened with baking powder or baking soda, as opposed to yeast, including banana bread, zucchini bread, gingerbread, pumpkin bread, orange cranberry bread, cornbread, Irish soda bread and even muffins, drop biscuits and scones.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
Bojangles After declaring May 14 National Biscuit Day, Bojangles is offering a BOGO deal on biscuit combos from May 18 through May 24.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biscuit
cookie
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Kids can enjoy welcome milk and cookies, along with a variety of in-room amenities, such as toys and board games, kid-sized robes and slippers, and practical items like cribs, high chairs, bottle warmers, and diapers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Triple-chocolate espresso cookies with bittersweet wafers, milk chocolate chips, and dark chocolate bars, espresso powder, and a sprinkle of salt on top.—
Sarah Everett,
The Spruce,
2 June 2026
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“Biscuit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biscuit. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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