- present participle of dawn.
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"I can't read instruction manuals, but I've watched YouTube tutorials," he says, generating a growling bass line that sounds like the dawning of the apocalypse.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“There’s just a dawning understanding of broader American consciousness about caregiving and aging. It’s a massive infrastructure issue and economic issue that will impact all of us in some way.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Graham Burnett, a history professor at Princeton University, sees "the dawning of an authentic movement," similar to the birth of the environmental movement in the 1960s, which led to landmark environmental protections.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The dawning realization that the problems these men face aren’t failures at being men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
But for one fleeting instant, I caught his eyes on us and a look of recognition dawning on his face.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
But where shall woman look for her redemption in this auspicious hour, when new dawnings of liberty, new sunrises of human enfranchisement are illumining the world?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She was thankful to do it, thankful to welcome dawnings of the old zest, to feel her feet involuntarily quicken to a dance, to discover herself singing as she moved to and fro.
From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome
The first dawnings of modern literature are seen in connection with the cultivation of the language of Provence and the productions of the Troubadours.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Aaron Walker
Help the friends, increase their number, make their hearts sources of inspiration and their souls dawnings of light.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
His account of the first dawnings of culture, and of the ruder Oriental civilizations, is marked by genuine insight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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