daybreaks

plural of daybreak
as in days
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance I always seem to wake up at daybreak, regardless of what the clock says

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Noun
  • Cazares begins most days at sunrise and works construction or as a day laborer throughout the city and suburbs.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • On Thursday, the judge ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days' notice before making any major physical changes to the building, including demolishing it.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Winter sunsets would be about an hour later, but winter sunrises would also be about an hour later in those states.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Take San Jose, California, mother of four Alyssa Munoz, who swaps the local park for a different kind of playground on Sunday mornings.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Thousands of Chiefs fans spent their Sunday nights and Monday mornings, afternoons and evenings at Arrowhead Stadium ahead of the home opener against AFC West division rival Denver.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Morning dawns gray and dismal, but the rain has almost ended.
    Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
    Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Then the two boxers pound the daylights out of each other.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 June 2026
  • The former daytime talk show host scared the daylights out of Kris Jenner over the weekend.
    Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
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“Daybreaks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daybreaks. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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