the morrow
noun
old-fashioned + literary
: the next day : tomorrow : the future
We expect them to arrive on the morrow.
We don't know what the morrow may bring.
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Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Don’t worry about the morrow, because the morrow is perfectly capable of taking care of itself.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Don’t worry about the morrow, because the morrow is perfectly capable of taking care of itself.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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“The morrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20morrow. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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