- present participle of dawn.
dawning
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“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
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
He stared at me for a second, the dawning of understanding on his face, and then said, “Yeah.”
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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
Already we see the bright dawnings of this new relation, in the universal diffusion of the spirit of emancipation, first sought in the wilds of America.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
His account of the first dawnings of culture, and of the ruder Oriental civilizations, is marked by genuine insight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Such were the dawnings of zoological science after the revival of learning in Europe.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Ye have been and are the dawnings of affection and the daysprings of divine grace: defile not the tongue with cursing or execration of anyone, and guard the eye from that which is not seemly.
From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá
