- present participle of dawn.
dawning
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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
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
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
It was only just dawning on Harry how many witches and wizards there must be in the world; he had never really thought much about those in other countries.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Yet all these were only dawnings and intimations of what was coming during the week of real preparation, after the Governor's proclamation had been read.
From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Asa Don Dickinson
There follow three brief Scenes which are meant to depict the dawnings of human consciousness and the conditions under which life is to be lived.
From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown
Grey days, and wan, dree dawnings Since then, with fritter of flowers— Day wearies me with its ostentation and fawnings.
From Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I don't remember how early in the game the thing began," he resumed, ignoring Grislow's joking interruption, "but away back in the dimmest dawnings the number seven began to have a curious significance for me.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
Already we see the bright dawnings of this new relation, in the universal diffusion of the spirit of emancipation, first sought in the wilds of America.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
