as in sunrise
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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Recent Examples of sunup In honor of the anniversary, Washington Post journalists chronicled one of those days, from sunup to sundown. Washington Post, 29 May 2022 Key West is a top-notch destination for a girls getaway, as you're guaranteed to have a good time from sunup to sundown. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2022 Irving is observing Ramadan and fasting (no food or fluids) from sunup to sundown. Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022 From trekking poles to sleeping bags, the items found at Dick’s can upgrade your next camping trip from sunup to sundown. Sara Coughlin, SELF, 22 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for sunup
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Noun
  • The hotel also provides yoga sessions at sunrise and sunset, held against the peaceful backdrop of Talamanca Bay.
    Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Here, guests can choose from a variety of accommodation types such as classic hotel rooms in its lodge to cottages offering large porches for watching the sunrise and sunsets, private log cabins on the lake, and even glamping tents in the woods.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The new board will be responsible for the day to day management of Apex and will be key in setting the company’s agenda for future and long term growth.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Tips for watching the Lyrid meteors The ideal time to head outside for the show, according to NASA, is from 10:30 p.m. local time on April 21 until dawn the following morning.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On Saturday in Lexington, a reenactment staged on the Lexington Battle Green will kick off at 5 a.m., followed by a 5-mile road race at 8 a.m., the Patriot’s Day Parade at 2 p.m. and more events throughout the day At 6 a.m., a dawn salute at Buttrick Hillside will kick off events in Concord.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In all, Israeli troops killed eight Red Crescent paramedics, six other emergency responders from the Civil Defense, and a United Nations worker who happened to drive by later that morning, according to the Red Crescent and the Civil Defense.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • There will be no newsletter tomorrow morning.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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  • On the morn of Liberation Day, Trump called out four other Republican senators — Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell — for pushing back on his plan.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The light green safari shade is especially fun, or go for an aquatic vibe with the icy morn/sea wave two-combo.
    Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
Noun
  • If [Day break] were referring to the dawn, the clue would have been one word: daybreak.
    Deb Amlen, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The Gregorio brothers had just begun their daybreak commute to work assembling wooden pallets in late January when federal officers in SUVs pulled them over in a Chicago suburb.
    Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2025

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“Sunup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunup. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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