sunrises

noun

plural of sunrise
as in mornings
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance a job that requires him to get up before sunrise

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Recent Examples of sunrises The difference can be dramatic, with evening daylight lasting later into the day while winter sunrises arrive much later. — James Ward, USA Today, 31 July 2026 Usually, environmental cues such as sunrises and sunsets help set your internal clock. — Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 There could be some colorful sunsets and sunrises, said meteorologist Lamont Bain of the weather service’s Monterey office. — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026 Orthodox Jewish groups say a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent could upend that routine by pushing winter sunrises — and the earliest permissible time for some prayers — an hour later. — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026 Winter sunrises and sunsets may come notably later in much of the country soon, if Congress ends up passing a controversial bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 15 July 2026 Looking ahead to early next week, some Saharan dust builds into DFW, causing some reduction in air quality, dusty skies and more colorful sunrises and sunsets. — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Extreme Sunrise And Sunset Points The sun’s path across the sky also reaches its annual extremes on the solstice, causing extreme sunrises and sunsets. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunrises
  1. mornings
  2. days
  3. dawns
  4. daylights
  5. auroras
Noun
  • On favorable mornings, colorful balloons fill the sky over the Turkish region, creating one of travel’s most photographed scenes, according to Visit Cappadocia.
    — Ashley Lynch July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • Three months into her unemployment, Peralta Hernandez started the Sacramento Walk Club, inviting women around town to join her on twice-weekly walks — on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of mornings
Noun
  • Colt’s father, Colin Gray, was sentenced to 15 years in prison two days later, as his lawyer announced plans to appeal.
    — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Four accounts across four services were involved, and Hugging Face’s forensic timeline documents 17,600 distinct actions across four days.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of days
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
Definition of dawns
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
Definition of daylights
Noun
  • The town of Churchill is also located below the auroral oval, a region centered around Earth’s magnetic poles where auroras most persistently occur.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2026
  • Entries include photographs of auroras, galaxies and landscapes of Earth’s moon.
    — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Definition of auroras

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