dawn
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In some areas, minimum temperatures could be just a degree or two above freezing by dawn on Thursday.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
She set off after midnight from her village in central Ukraine to reach Kyiv before dawn and sell milk, sour cream, butter and cottage cheese from her own cows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Hundreds of families were gathered at dawn to collect their relatives outside the base, where cars, taxis and buses were parked in ranks preparing to take them away, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
They’re even developing a routine: spending the night on the branches of a roost tree before following each other in flight at dawn, according to a Friends of Big Bear Valley Facebook post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Only a silent, shadowy maze of tall trees, blocking out the dim light of dawn.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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
Commercial-scale fusion power has had its share of false dawns, says Bechtel, futurist and professor of corporate innovation at the University of Notre Dame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
As another Grand Slam season dawns, many players still believe they are undervalued and denied a voice in key decisions made by the major championships.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
But it dawns on me now that, in the end, Mother carried every last one of our possessions outside as a farewell gift to Kilanga.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Though the foldable was developed on his watch, Apple is anxious to set a tone that a new innovative day has dawned at the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
And if Snead was going to win himself a championship, it dawned on him that everything that had carried the Rams to this point would have to change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It also does not appear to have dawned on them that they are high-profile individuals, likely to attract attention, with footage finding its way to social media, as happened with Carse.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The celebrations were as ecstatic on the touchline as they were in the stands; disbelief as it dawned on players, staff and fans that Wales were heading to their first semi-final.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The implications of what he was saying slowly dawned on me, and it was like someone had pulled my heart out.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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"I can't read instruction manuals, but I've watched YouTube tutorials," he says, generating a growling bass line that sounds like the dawning of the apocalypse.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“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
Japan isn’t the only country trying to reshore production of this strategic technology in the dawning age of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
She nods, grimly acknowledging the dawning horror on my face.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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