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sunrise

[suhn-rahyz] / ˈsʌnˌraɪz /


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Around the autumn equinox, the change is particularly noticeable as sunrise gets later and sunset earlier.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

As we rode into the sunrise between cornfields, we began encountering riders we would see often—mostly passing us—on road bikes, folding bikes, recumbents, fixies, e-bikes, tandems, clunkers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

“I like to joke that if we stood barefoot in a stream in a forest while looking at the sunrise, you would get a lot of the same benefits as the BioCharger,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

For some it was before sunrise; others stayed up well past midnight in their time zone.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

If her globe-shaped tummy had been a real globe, she would have gone from sunrise to sunset, just like that.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

People on other continents watch in trepidation under vivid, red-orange sunrises and sunsets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The installation puts people inside that spectral array of color to capture the essence of those sunrises and sunsets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

He once dredged up 17 rings in a single day by sweeping the ocean bottom in a spot where tourists, well into their tequila sunrises, routinely launch themselves off catamarans, their fingers slick with sunscreen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

He said he loved seeing sunrises and sunsets on the ocean, as well as whales, some great white sharks, turtles and sea crocodiles.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Regardless, the panoramic scenes are the same from any neighborhood: red-orange sunrises, blue-black moonlit nights.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez




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