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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The realization that the controversy over Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses broke out in England just a few days after The Last Temptation of Christ came out joined those narratives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026 -
News of the vandalism comes just days before election day on June 2.—
Jasmine Mendez
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Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Noun
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The carrier’s flying boats would travel between Australia and Sri Lanka, staying airborne long enough for passengers to witness two sunrises.—
Marisa Garcia,
Forbes.com,
25 May 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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One where mornings begin with the sunrise, days revolve around meal times, and slow evening sunsets melt effortlessly into the sea.—
Katie Silcox,
Vogue,
28 May 2026
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Publish When Your Audience Is Active Some research suggests that mornings and lunch hours on mid-week days (Tuesday through Thursday) are the best times to get views.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
28 May 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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Given the many false dawns in recent months, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas was reluctant to speculate on the outcome when quizzed by reporters on Tuesday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Sunups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunups. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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