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

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

“It’s dawning on people, all across the United States of America, what’s at stake,” Newsom told the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2025

“That’s why we call it Helios, because Helios is the sun, and we said this is dawning the commercial adoption phase of quantum computing in industry,” said Quantinuum President and Chief Executive Rajeeb Hazra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

They taught me the tongues of the Greeks and the Romans and opened for me the colonnaded vistas of those long-forgotten empires, in this, the dawning of a new empire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson