- present participle of dawn.
dawning
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“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
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
“That’s why we call it Helios, because Helios is the sun, and we said this is dawning the commercial adoption phase of quantum computing in industry,” said Quantinuum President and Chief Executive Rajeeb Hazra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
There was no space left, and ten little ones still stood anxiously on the deck of the Ocarrion, realization dawning on their faces.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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
The Nestorians and Armenians of Persia in common with their Mohammedan neighbours suffer from the evil forms of society and government which have been bequeathed to them from the earliest dawnings of history.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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 Lynde, Francis
She was thankful to do it, thankful to welcome dawnings of the old zest, to feel her feet involuntarily quicken to a dance, to discover herself singing as she moved to and fro.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
There were already some dawnings of Christianity in this district.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
