- 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
“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
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
“I think,” I said, realization dawning, “that’s the point. Listen. They’re talking to each other. Well, signaling each other.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
His account of the first dawnings of culture, and of the ruder Oriental civilizations, is marked by genuine insight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
There were already some dawnings of Christianity in this district.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
Help the friends, increase their number, make their hearts sources of inspiration and their souls dawnings of light.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
