I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dawn chorus
dawn raid
false dawn
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The ceasefire turned out to be another false dawn.
the dawn/dawning of a new era (= the time when something important first begins )
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the dawn of a new era in Europe.
the dawn/dawning of a new era (= the time when something important first begins )
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the dawn of a new era in Europe.
the morning/dawn light
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The flowers glowed brightly in the morning light.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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The Mallaig train pulled away from the Clyde valley, leaving the haze-softened lights of Dumbarton paling in a cold February dawn .
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In the cold light of dawn , of course, it was easy to analyse the evening.
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Yet enchantment it was, he knew, by the cold light of dawn .
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Or perhaps the head asleep on the pillow is revealed as something less enticing in the cold light of dawn .
early
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She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood.
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From it in the early dawn two young men came and stealthily found their way to the temple.
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When he woke up, stiff and uncomfortable, the early summer dawn was lighting the room.
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We climbed clumsily past Lake Samiti, its dark waters reflecting peaks already shining in their early dawn .
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The captain has promised to reach the coastline by early dawn and follow it down to the sea.
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She must be riddled, her warm juices all spilled for looking upwards too early into the dawn , leafy with parachutes.
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It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer.
false
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The global fund in all probability will prove to be another false dawn for the poor.
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Tracers lit up the fog like a false dawn .
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It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours.
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The woman is much more emotionally exposed to the disappointments and false dawns .
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That proved to be a false dawn , as Moravcik's replacement, McNamara, was the one who scored.
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But we must beware of overconfidence - we have had false dawns before!
grey
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Even in these grey hours before dawn , he continued her master.
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Waking with a start, she lay in the grey half-light of dawn , wondering where she was.
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They left the prison building in the grey light of dawn .
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Both had taken quite a beating by the time the first grey flickers of dawn filtered in.
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Was it already streaked with the first faint grey fingers of dawn ?
new
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Small wonder then that yesterday's new dawn was greeted with scepticism at the chalk face.
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Everyone knew Gary Lineker was saying farewell to international football and a new dawn was beckoning.
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The prospect of liberation rose like a new dawn before Polly's eyes.
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So there could be reason to think his administration would bring a new dawn for local democracy.
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Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to be a brief and unsustainable interlude rather than a new dawn after all.
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That is how I see the Nineties as a possible new dawn .
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Topaz Brown, alas, did not live to see that new dawn .
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The new dawn: Cuisine 2000 in its first month of service, August 1985, on to Euston-Manchester run.
■ NOUN
break
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One such dawn breaks at Ocean Beach and the swell is up.
chorus
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Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.
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Having heard the evening chorus , I want to hear the dawn chorus as well.
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So do the birds that form the dawn chorus at Wayland.
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When I wake early to the dawn chorus , I turn my face into my pillow, hoping to prolong the dream.
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In woodland we stood and listened to the vociferous dawn chorus .
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The first birds were waking; the dawn chorus began.
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Day Six: With a salute from the dawn chorus , your cruiser leaves at 6.30am and heads back to Cologne.
day
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This room is kept firmly locked until Christmas Day dawns , so mischievous fingers can't hide the baubles.
light
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As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye.
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And now, Mavis stood barefooted on the beach, looking at the moody grey sea in the dawn light .
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Now, in the reluctant dawn light , he stood eyeing the carriage and rubbing his grizzled chin.
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The dawn light filtered through the half-closed curtains.
raid
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Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets.
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A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.
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Read in studio Police have arrested twelve people, including a solicitor's clerk, in dawn raids .
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In any other part of the country, police would have apprehended the drug dealers in a series of dawn raids .
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The primary purpose of the SARs is to restrict the swift build-up of substantial stakes in a target company by dawn raids .
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Seven pistols were discovered under a bed in a dawn raid on a flat.
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They also recovered some stolen ammunition during a dawn raid on this flat in Notting Hill.
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The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent.
■ VERB
arrive
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She'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they wouldn't be coming after all.
begin
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The starlings' daily routine in the Park begins at dawn .
come
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Often, he came home exhausted at dawn and slept the whole of the day away.
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The excitement left with the coming of dawn , and I suddenly felt wrung out.
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They came again at dawn , silently through the rocks with their bodies mud-streaked and branches of mesquite in their headbands.
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The darkness came dawn now, and inside this dark were people who could kill you.
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It will only come closer around dawn .
greet
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In more or less recognizable weather, more or less recognizable birds are greeting the dawn .
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Again and again he played back the recording made when TMA-1 greeted the dawn for the first time in three million years.
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Ari held Nathan's hand as everyone greeted the dawn of the Solstice Day.
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Then the barricaded rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement greet the dawn with militant anthems and defiant chants.
leave
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It was the first time she had left him before dawn .
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They left the inn before dawn , crossed a wide river by a stone bridge, and continued east.
rise
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The prospect of liberation rose like a new dawn before Polly's eyes.
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When they rise at dawn and in the twilight people should not be abroad, but at their prayers indoors.
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Then rising like dawn from the mist, the pain was utterly and entirely real.
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I had risen soon after dawn , as was my habit, and went walking across the rolling hilltops above the house.
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Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire.
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One morning she rose at dawn and climbed Ballymacadoyle Hill, behind the fort.
wake
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She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood.
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Billy woke up at dawn on that day in January.
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On the farm the animals wake at dawn .
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When I wake early to the dawn chorus, I turn my face into my pillow, hoping to prolong the dream.
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His resolve ends when again he wakes at dawn with prophetic words in his ears.
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Since most babies wake at dawn , parents will find it is a time when babies are most playful and alert.
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All taught her how it felt to wake up at dawn and decide what to do with the day.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the crack of dawn
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They both had to get up at the crack of dawn the next morning.
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Crowing begins at or just before the crack of dawn -- as my neighbours will testify.
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Farmers are often away at the crack of dawn.
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Get up at the crack of dawn.
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He was up at the crack of dawn doing something unspeakable to the turkey, but the kids were up anyway.
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She was up at the crack of dawn and often not home until late.
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She was up of course, at the crack of dawn and you know, we go eat breakfast and everything so.
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We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast.
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We would come in at the crack of dawn, at 7 a. m. every morning.
the dawn chorus
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We talked almost until dawn .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But even at 6: 30 at night, there can be a dawn .
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Eck therefore had a whole night's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn .
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It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning.
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One morning she rose at dawn and climbed Ballymacadoyle Hill, behind the fort.
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The cowbird lays her egg at dawn .
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There, we spent a night at a Yonchon inn and waited until dawn to make our getaway.
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Waking with a start, she lay in the grey half-light of dawn , wondering where she was.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
before
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Sometime just before dawn the next morning, he had a dream.
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We got to Sabinal in the wee hours before dawn .
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The second is the simple case that before dawn , the background noise caused by human activity tends to be much less.
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The first attack wave took off from the carriers at thirty minutes before dawn , about 200 miles south of Ceylon.
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Saskia wakes before dawn in her cold, shabby room to imagine herself navigating with Odysseus and marking the constellations.
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Why not the women I saw all around me, working from before dawn to dark?
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A coyote passed an hour or so before dawn at the edge of the clearing.
on
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It began to dawn on people only slowly, very slowly, that they were never coming back to work.
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Suddenly it dawned on Rose that he stopped by so frequently because he was attracted to her.
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It dawned on me that Stark was giving me a lesson.
■ NOUN
age
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It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music.
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The new age had dawned , and the signs of its presence were experienced.
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Remember, the age of photography had dawned .
day
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It was a happy day when it dawned on me that there was no actual impediment to my cordially disliking both lots.
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May Day dawned warm and sunny, and the two veterans nodded at each other over morning coffee.
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Finally, the great day dawned .
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He saw each working day dawn and stayed in bed.
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The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look, confident heroics would not be called for.
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The darkest day of my life dawned in western Arizona on November sixteenth.
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Pluto's right angle to Mercury insists a bright new day is dawning .
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A new day had dawned in golf.
light
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Then light dawned on him, and with it came a momentary rush of indignation.
morning
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Next morning dawns bright and clear; the storm has blown itself out in the night.
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During the night the wind got up, and the morning dawned grey and blustery, with bursts of heavy rain.
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That first morning dawned clear and cool, a welcome change after sweltering Boston.
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Chapter 5 Saturday morning dawned late for me, and I just caught the tail end of Sport on Four.
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Saturday morning dawned hot and fair in Thames, Wight and Portland.
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When morning dawned he knew he would never again follow the old man up to that room.
truth
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Then the truth begins to dawn .
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He could feel it now, as though a great truth had finally dawned in him.
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Then she remembered Edward's march and the awful truth began to dawn .
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We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned .
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Following that, comes a period of despair and depression when the truth finally dawns that the loved one has gone for good.
■ VERB
begin
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Something began to dawn on Sandie Shaw.
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It began to dawn on people only slowly, very slowly, that they were never coming back to work.
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The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn .
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It began to dawn on me that I had walked into a pressure cooker; there were a lot of big problems.
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It began to dawn on him just what he had said, and to whom.
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Then the truth begins to dawn .
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Then she remembered Edward's march and the awful truth began to dawn .
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Slowly it began to dawn on the pair that nobody else could possibly represent their work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the Cold War dawned in 1949, Galvin was starting his military career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was afraid that if I appeared too eager, it might dawn on the woman she had made a terrible mistake.
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It dawned on me that no one seemed to be idle.
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It is dawning on the rebels that they may have wider support than first realised.
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Monday dawned, as Mondays will, and it was back to the Soho Laundry.
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Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent.
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Suddenly it dawned on Rose that he stopped by so frequently because he was attracted to her.
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Until it dawned on her that by postponing the decision she was making a decision.