dawning
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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
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
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
Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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
They beamed upon her, and Juliet began to feel the dawnings of pride in her own diplomacy.
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
They had learned already to rejoice in the dawnings as the purest and fullest revelations of Nature's exuberant largesse.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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
She gazed upon the hapless youth, She gazed upon the hardened man, And dawnings of the dreadful truth To rise upon her soul began.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
