dawn

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As dawn broke, large areas of the usually busy capital were deserted and shops remained shuttered.

From Barron's

How different is the AI revolution from the revolution at the dawn of the internet in the late 1990s?

From Barron's

Sailors in the Truman’s hangar bay were working before dawn to get aircraft in position for the next day’s mission, when the carrier detected an inbound ballistic missile.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that novel was published in 1922, well before the dawn of websites and apps to rent everything from homes to handbags.

From The Wall Street Journal

A full minute went by before it dawned on me that I was still in one piece.

From Literature