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dawns on
vb. (en-third-person singulardawn on)
Usage examples of "dawns on".
But what if it dawns on us that our perception of rocks, mountains, and stars is a situation of just the same kind?
Light dawns on the face of everyone except Avi himself, who maintains his almost perpetual mask of cool control.
When it finally dawns on them, it can take an enormous amount of courage to put the situation right.
When it dawns on him that I want to ask something, he sighs, rolls his eyes up and tells whoever is on the line to hold on.
Reading the story resurrected long-buried memories of men and battalions, fire-fights and assaults, of nameless, numbered hills and joyless, rainy dawns on the line.