dawn
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Since the dawn of recording, musicians across the country have captured moments of U.S. history, in songs ranging from Woody Guthrie’s ‘Do Re Mi’ to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s ‘Empire State of Mind.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
By dawn on Monday, many other hospitals had reported the Hippocrates system was down.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
By dawn, the name was gone, but the tarp remained.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026
In a blaring nightclub in wartime Myanmar, partied-out revellers doze until dawn by the dancefloor, wary of journeying home despite the end of a post-coup curfew.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
But now, in the freezing dawn, doubts crowded in.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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