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Recent Examples of dawn
Noun
In Merced, parks are typically open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., while in Modesto and Sacramento, most parks open from dawn to dusk. Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2025 What’s a native vine that can cover a trellis or fence with June flowers the purply-blue color of a country sky just before dawn? Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Verb
Then, more yelling and the slowly dawning realization that this was not, in fact, planned. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025 And in the seemingly always-active game of snapping up intellectual property, WHP Global closed out the year with a deal to buy Vera Wang, while Marquee Brands brought Laura Ashley on board just as 2025 dawned. Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dawn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dawn
Noun
  • The three most beautiful naked-eye sights to be had in the night sky will create a stunning panorama just before sunrise.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The Wales Women’s manager just woke up and left with the sunrise, bound for the top of the country’s highest peak, Yr Wyddfa.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s been trying really from the beginning to bring the 10 Black mob families together.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 June 2025
  • Bulls will point to yesterday’s event as just the beginning of an exciting path of growth.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Iran had been in negotiations with the US for about two months, but called them off after Israel started bombing its territory.
    Sara Braun, Fortune, 22 June 2025
  • The Liberty were unable to get stops that helped them in most wins to start the season.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion children.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
  • Ross has been a foundational voice for AEW since its inception.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • De Los Reyes began working for Elite Security as a bag-checker at Petco Park during the 2007-08 baseball season.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • The Dodgers initially declined to make any public comment when the raids first began.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The tragic loss of an Air India Boeing 787 days before the Show led to the decision for senior Boeing executives to not attend and for the company to keep a low profile.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • On the afternoon of March 25, 2024 — the same day Combs' homes were raided in Miami and Los Angeles — Paul was arrested by local police at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • In the five years prior to the onset of the pandemic, the overall crime rate sat between 8 and 9.5 acts per 1,000 students.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
  • Since then, city leaders added hundreds of new employees and, since the onset of the COVID pandemic, relied on one-time funding to balance the books.
    Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • The Carabao Cup will begin in mid-August, with Premier League teams not playing in Europe entering in the second round, which starts in the week commencing August 25, and the remaining seven clubs receiving a bye to the third round, which takes place in the weeks commencing September 15 and 22.
    Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • These delays at the ISA, in turn, have frustrated corporate actors, like The Metals Company (TMC), which are keen to commence commercial-scale operations in international waters.
    Time, Time, 17 June 2025

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“Dawn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dawn. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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