early bird
Example Sentences
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Clarke noted that CT scanning has become an essential method for studying delicate fossils, especially small dinosaurs and early birds trapped in solid rock.
From Science Daily
It was when it reported on matters of which I had zero awareness: my HRV balance, for example, or my chronotype, albeit a wishy-washy “late morning,” a designation I plan to flip to early bird.
‘Ten o’clock it starts. The room will fill up over the next half an hour. These are the early birds who want to make sure they get a good seat!’
From Literature
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I headed to the workshop, housed in an airy stone barn, and found I was not the lone early bird.
Are you, like Lawler, an early bird up with the dawn?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.