dawn
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That came later, and quieter, when I finally showed up before dawn and did the actual work where no one was filming.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Five days after Samba’s escape, around dawn, a team of 20 zookeepers descended on a bush in the local woods, following a sighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican-born Texas builder killed in a confrontation with ICE officers, is remembered as a devoted family man who got up before dawn and worked hard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Having been bundled out of their tents at dawn, everyone here is exhausted even before they have been set any tasks.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
It rained until dawn on Tuesday, or so Pa told me later.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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It dawns on him that he’s in a new, bizarre, just-for-him reality, and he won’t see daylight until he can spot the anomalies in each go-round.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Commercial-scale fusion power has had its share of false dawns, says Bechtel, futurist and professor of corporate innovation at the University of Notre Dame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
It suddenly dawns on me that I have to get up again in six hours in order to get to the university by nine o’clock.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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But as we drove further into the village it dawned on us just how many of the bright white Andalusian homes had seemingly been spared.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Then it dawned on her the ring could have been in the box with her Vinted order.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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
“It never dawned on me that four years later I’d be like, the murmur is bigger than it ever was,” Glannan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
By then I was just barely listening, because it had dawned on me that our time of mourning must be about over.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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A sizable portion of the generation born after World War II imagined a new age was dawning in the Golden State.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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
This might be a dawning moment, when the golfing world realises that someone capable of winning a record-equalling 82 PGA Tour titles might not be the best qualified to shape its future.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
I watched in slow, dawning horror as a dozen girls jumped down from their bunks and gathered in a buzzing huddle at the center of the room.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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