- 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
Now, there’s a dawning realization that these tools can do far more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
We already understood what was now dawning on my father: Methuselah could betray our secrets.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Grey days, and wan, dree dawnings Since then, with fritter of flowers— Day wearies me with its ostentation and fawnings.
From Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
But where shall woman look for her redemption in this auspicious hour, when new dawnings of liberty, new sunrises of human enfranchisement are illumining the world?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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
