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Discover LudwigThe word 'dawned' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to indicate when understanding of a situation or concept is achieved. Example sentence: As they talked more, the truth of the situation slowly dawned on them.
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dawned
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His report is now at least five years later than anyone imagined possible and as he meandered on – "It's been very difficult" – it gradually dawned on the committee that part of the delay was down to Chilcot's inability to use one word when several thousand would do.
Somehow, it had never dawned on me they might be implemented in full.
I was brought up a Catholic and an altar boy, but it's recently dawned on me that the Christian story is about human sacrifice.
It was as I made that decision that it dawned on me I'd been in an accident.
And this weekend it finally dawned upon him what presidential campaigns are all about – and what his precise role in 2008 was.
And that's when it dawned on me, Maybe this is it.
As I sat down to edit the film, something dawned on me.
Monday to Friday, however, often dawned with a deep sense of dread.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said: "It shows that they are a party in panic because it is dawning on them – something which has dawned on the rest of the country some time ago – that they are not going to win.
As the 19th century dawned, the majority continued to take their husband's surnames and see their own die out.
With awful clarity, it has dawned on Mr Schröder how close he is to becoming chancellor.Why awful?
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