dawning
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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
For all of us wondering when an ugly time will fade, the moment will resonate like a cautious, dawning hope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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 spread across his face was adorable.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Mrs. Willis hailed with pleasure any little dawnings of real thought in her girls’ prize essays.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade
The sun shone in beauty, and smiled on the first faint dawnings of spring that lay in tender green on the surrounding hills.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
She marked the first dawnings of the day, and rose.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
"He says there is something singularly interesting in watching the countenances and movements of children, and in tracing the dawnings of respective characters."
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar
With profound humility we profess our unalterable attachment to your Majesty's person and family, and our most cordial approbation of the early measures adopted for giving a check to the first dawnings of disobedience.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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