dawn on
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The gunfire did not appear to faze tourists, who ascended Morro Dois Irmaos at dawn on Tuesday to watch the sunrise over Rio's sweeping panorama of mountains and curved beaches.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Greenpeace activists scaled a monument in front of Congress at dawn on Wednesday and unfurled a banner urging lawmakers "not to betray the Argentine people."
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Between midnight and dawn on Tuesday, the Earth will pass directly between the sun and the moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho", was killed during a military operation carried out at dawn on Sunday in the town of Tapalpa, in the central-western state of Jalisco.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
All round him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
