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
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Winter weather alerts are in effect across parts of California, Nevada and Oregon ahead of two systems expected in the coming days.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026 -
Yamil Lage | Afp | Getty Images An annual cigar festival in Cuba's capital city of Havana, which had been due to take place over five days in late February, has been suspended until further notice due to a worsening economic crisis.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
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Being able to peel all of those back to this primal core, connecting with nature, seeing just the beauty of sunrises and sunsets and experiencing that with a group of strangers that then could potentially become lifelong friends.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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Visitors who make the journey to Wayah Bald Lookout Tower will be rewarded with breathtaking sunrises, picnic lunches, and panoramic views of the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge mountains plus Southern Nantahala Wilderness.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2026
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Cool, clear mornings give way to afternoons shaped by the low winter arc of the sun, painting the mountains in long shadows and the sky in improbable color.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Thursday is starting out chilly for North Texas, but after today there are no more mornings in the 30s for at least another seven to ten days.—
Michael Autovino,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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There have been too many false dawns in a season dogged by inconsistency for anyone to get carried away with Saturday’s triumph.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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Swim through bioluminescent seas, sleep in deserts with poets, wake in rainforest dawns with conservationists, and travel north into polar silence.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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But that’s not stopping Nicotero from doing all within his power to scare the living daylights out of his contestants.—
Josh Wigler,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Nov. 2025
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Playing on parental fears, The Babadook has been scaring the daylights out of us for a solid decade now.—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Daybreaks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daybreaks. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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