as in days
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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Noun
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Kogonada, who also wrote and edited the film, built the project around Hong Kong’s particular relationship with memory and movement, taking three days to identify a geography the team could navigate largely on foot.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 June 2026 -
Last week, guests including creative director Terrence O’Connor, gallerist Hannah Traore, and actor Yesly Dimate spent two days in New York’s Adirondack mountains.—
Madeleine Schulz,
Vogue,
15 June 2026
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Because the station orbits Earth once every 90 minutes, the crew on board sees 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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The women spent many sunrises bonding over picking flowers.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2026
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What really grounded me was spending mornings nearby in the Public Garden.—
Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
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Saturday mornings in the Howell home had long been a time for prayer together, but Ray started going down to the basement instead, to read the Bible alone.—
Adeline Goss,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
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After so much negativity dragged down the mood in the Liverpool dressing room towards the end of Slot’s reign, sources close to a number of senior players say there’s a sense of excitement as a new era dawns.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
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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
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“Sunups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunups. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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