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
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
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
I made special note of which two trees the dawning sun appeared between and set my sights for the opposite direction.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
They need to hear of new dawnings, of radiant to-morrows, of larger, brighter coming days.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
At another time he thus expressed his method of study: "I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light."
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon
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
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
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
