as in sunrise
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance
have you ever actually heard a rooster crow at sunup?
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Recent Examples of sunup
In honor of the anniversary, Washington Post journalists chronicled one of those days, from sunup to sundown.
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Washington Post,
29 May 2022
Key West is a top-notch destination for a girls getaway, as you're guaranteed to have a good time from sunup to sundown.
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Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2022
Irving is observing Ramadan and fasting (no food or fluids) from sunup to sundown.
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Jeff Zillgitt,
USA TODAY,
21 Apr. 2022
From trekking poles to sleeping bags, the items found at Dick’s can upgrade your next camping trip from sunup to sundown.
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Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
22 Mar. 2022
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Washington Post,
29 May 2022
Key West is a top-notch destination for a girls getaway, as you're guaranteed to have a good time from sunup to sundown.
—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2022
Irving is observing Ramadan and fasting (no food or fluids) from sunup to sundown.
—
Jeff Zillgitt,
USA TODAY,
21 Apr. 2022
From trekking poles to sleeping bags, the items found at Dick’s can upgrade your next camping trip from sunup to sundown.
—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
22 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunup
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It was broadcast live by English Heritage on YouTube, allowing skywatchers around the world to follow the sunrise remotely.
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Today will see 15 hours and 4 minutes between sunrise and sunset.
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Bass was in Ghana on a diplomatic trip when the deadly inferno spread amid extraordinarily high Santa Ana winds that forecasters had warned about for days.
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Its summer program is built as a four or five-day series, with each two-hour session focused on a theme like pastry-making or global flavors.
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But that system still hung around for 16 years, until the dawn of the four-team College Football Playoff in 2014.
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Greenspan helped define modern American capitalism from the final years of the Cold War era through the dawn of the digital age.
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Starting at age 10, kids can also sign up as counselors-in-training, helping younger campers in the morning and taking classes with their own age group in the afternoon.
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According to Dominguez, her husband called Sunday morning to report he and other detainees were being moved due to the fires.
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On the morn of Liberation Day, Trump called out four other Republican senators — Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell — for pushing back on his plan.
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The light green safari shade is especially fun, or go for an aquatic vibe with the icy morn/sea wave two-combo.
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The quiet moments, the grief, the slow dawning of realization that her husband had written this piece as a way of dealing with his grief and her anger.
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Ever enterprising, Toha does eventually make her way back to the party, but there, the ultimate dawning of her place outside of Nelly’s circle is heartbreaking.
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By daybreak melatonin levels are already declining in most of us, as the body clock anticipates the day to come, but the first splash of light in the eyes helps hasten the process and keep us in sync with the sun.
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By daybreak, firefighters were still working to douse the flames at the complex.
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“Sunup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunup. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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