dawn

dawn

It dawns on me — my ex-husband hasn’t had much experience with racism.

From Huffington Post

It was the dawn of open source software.

From Wired

But, as 2009 merged into 2010, the expectations for a new dawning in schooling were slipping away.

From Washington Post

And as we hiked out just before dawn, the birds were already singing, and the city was quiet and lovely.

From NPR

Some people spent terrifying hours at the scene, not knowing if they would live to see the dawn.

From ABC News

These natural whole foods have sustained us since the dawn of time.

From Huffington Post

Yet, interpreting statistical data, especially for fields like business, is not much easier than it was since the dawn of literacy itself.

From VentureBeat

At dawn, servants found him cutting himself with a razor.

From NPR

He rises each dawn to search for work and toils until late at night, but there is never enough food.

From Los Angeles Times

We rose at dawn to watch the fishermen return with their early-morning catches.

From Huffington Post

Those have been the basic truths about cooking meats since, well, not the dawn of time, but the dawn of gastronomy.

From Washington Post

He’s seen the darkness and it was black and now it’s the dawn of a day that may not play out as a metaphor.

From OCRegister

He’s woken his wife with the alarm clock to be ready for dawn light at 4:30 in the morning.

From NBCNews.com

She’s interested in the fluid nature of gender identity and dawning sexuality, and why not?

From NPR

In those first 20 years before the light dawned, are there, looking back on it, any ads that, well, you’d regret, in retrospect?

From NPR

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