dawning
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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
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
The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction of the sun.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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
The first dawnings of that Light of peerless splendor had, as already described, broken in the city of Shíráz.
From God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi
We trace his progress step by step, from the first dawnings of unlawful ambition, to the cynical melancholy of his impenitent remorse.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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
This stimulus is especially necessary in infancy, and then powerfully prompts to observation, even anterior to the dawnings of intellectual curiosity, with which it subsequently co-operates.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
