dawn

At dawn on the rooftop, alarms of the few cell phones that still have battery wake the neighbors one by one.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Activist Manuel Cuesta Morúa, 63, woke before dawn in his apartment in a Soviet-style block built in the 1970s in east Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The skull anatomy indicates that the dodo may not have been active only during the daytime and could also have moved or foraged around dawn and dusk.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The traps are laid in the afternoon and picked up the following morning, allowing them to collect mosquitoes at dusk and dawn, when the insects are most active.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The idea that someone should have been feeding them seemed to dawn on the Bedouin raiders all at once.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

“Markets have seen plenty of false dawns throughout this conflict,” analysts at Deutsche Bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

After several false dawns, Dorrian's patience paid off when Clive Nates came on board in 2016 – eventually taking over as chairman in 2018.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

In some sense, this is akin to the realization that dawns on most people regarding their parents: Before we came along, they had a whole identity that had nothing to do with us.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

Investors burned by false dawns in China’s property market are reluctant to reprice assets without unmistakable signals.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Then it dawns on me what she’s asking.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

And when Folarin arrived a few weeks later, entering the world just hours before Independence Day dawned, he did so as an American citizen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

The attack was later immortalised in the 1957 film - both sons said, ironically, it was only when they were older that the full impact of what it depicted dawned on them.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

But as the EV age dawned, helped by top-down policy such as generous subsidies, Chinese firms hit the throttle.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

I don’t know why I endured that unpleasantness for so long, or why the ridiculousness of it dawned on me that day in Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

When the morning dawned, foggy and squally, they were right up under the island’s towering black cliffs, and a violent squall tore down the side of a mountain, slamming into the boat.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

It’s dawning on both the equity and bond markets that this conflict isn’t looking like a fleeting affair, said Amar Reganti, fixed-income strategist at Hartford Funds.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

It even overwhelms his dawning understanding of Venice’s spreading cholera outbreak, as he concludes he would rather stay on vacation than save the boy—or himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

The dawning of reality should be close at hand now for England players - 'maybe it's not you, Scotland, maybe it's us'.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

“But,” said the Prime Minister, with a sense of dawning horror, “didn’t you tell me they’re the creatures that drain hope and happiness out of people?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling