- 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
Japan isn’t the only country trying to reshore production of this strategic technology in the dawning age of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
“Why did he—?” He paused, as though something was dawning on him; then his expression contorted with rage.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
She marked the first dawnings of the day, and rose.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
There were already some dawnings of Christianity in this district.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Nestorians and Armenians of Persia in common with their Mohammedan neighbours suffer from the evil forms of society and government which have been bequeathed to them from the earliest dawnings of history.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Such were the dawnings of zoological science after the revival of learning in Europe.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
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