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[dawn] / dɔn /




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People who are at high risk are urged to be especially cautious outdoors at dusk and dawn, when mosquito activity is highest.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Behind the protests over Flock cameras and data centers are fears about the dawn of a new tech era.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

At dawn on the rooftop, alarms of the few cell phones that still have battery wake the neighbors one by one.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The dodo may have followed a more flexible daily schedule, with activity possibly extending into dawn and dusk.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The crickets and cicadas make a ceaseless, deafening buzz, coyotes cry mournfully in the distance, songbirds cheep and squawk at the first hint of dawn.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

It dawns on him that he’s in a new, bizarre, just-for-him reality, and he won’t see daylight until he can spot the anomalies in each go-round.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

In some sense, this is akin to the realization that dawns on most people regarding their parents: Before we came along, they had a whole identity that had nothing to do with us.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2026

The romantic idea of an insight that suddenly dawns is misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

Investors burned by false dawns in China’s property market are reluctant to reprice assets without unmistakable signals.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

As I stand there holding onto the counter, it dawns on me that I didn’t have to step over Mango’s bowls to get there.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

And when Folarin arrived a few weeks later, entering the world just hours before Independence Day dawned, he did so as an American citizen.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

As planting season dawned across South East Asia's rice fields, Suchart Piamsomboon, a 60-year-old farmer from Thailand's Chachoengsao province, went to the local shop for fertilisers.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

But as the EV age dawned, helped by top-down policy such as generous subsidies, Chinese firms hit the throttle.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

“It never dawned on me that four years later I’d be like, the murmur is bigger than it ever was,” Glannan said.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

As she stepped into the hall, it dawned on me that all this time, she had been ready to lend a hand.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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’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

With Teller’s dawning realization that he might not be slotted in for the role of supreme authority at Livermore, his old habit of undermine-and-conquer returned.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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