first light
noun
: the time when light is first seen in the morning : dawn
She was up at first light.
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By the first light of the next morning, search teams and an air ambulance went back to the command post and were able to recover the body of the victim, a 54-year-old man from Tennessee.
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
In this image, cranes flank the rising solar disk with Earth still in shadow as the first light silhouettes humanity’s next giant eye on the sky.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Chasing gestures and glimmers of memory, the film returns to Cao Thị Hậu’s birth cave alongside cinema’s first light.
—Cátia Rodrigues, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
That is, the process that (within the first three minutes after the big bang) produced the first light elements --- hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
In this image, cranes flank the rising solar disk with Earth still in shadow as the first light silhouettes humanity’s next giant eye on the sky.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Chasing gestures and glimmers of memory, the film returns to Cao Thị Hậu’s birth cave alongside cinema’s first light.
—Cátia Rodrigues, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
That is, the process that (within the first three minutes after the big bang) produced the first light elements --- hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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“First light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20light. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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