dawn upon
Intermediate (B1)formal
To slowly understand something you didn't see before — same as 'dawn on' but more formal.
"It slowly dawned upon the detective that the witness had been lying from the very beginning."
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the right team which doesn't just Dawn upon you
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and a new era of chaos would dawn upon the galaxy.