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waking

adjective as in wakeful

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Therefore, in the wake of Google’s antitrust suit, a new market for specialized information has emerged.

Once sea bound, the icebergs slowly melt, releasing critical nutrients in their wake and providing seals with both food and shelter.

The recall comes in the wake of 23 reports of fire and eight reports of minor burns related to the model.

The sentiment going into the home opener against Xavier was that just fielding a team in the wake of the tragedy was a huge victory.

This time last week, in the wake of earnings from tech’s five largest American companies and early results from other software companies, it appeared that tech shares were in danger of losing their mojo.

Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.

Waking briefly a few times throughout the night, I heard sounds, voices, slamming doors.

She tells clients to open curtains as much as possible to get exposure to natural light right when the body is waking up.

The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the Sherry, naked.

“In his waking hours, Kane had certainly forgotten the sled and the name which was painted on it,” he wrote.

Many times, in his dreams and in his waking thoughts, he had lived over scenes similar to this.

I remember waking up one night and looking out of my bunk to see him standing on the floor.

After the total oblivion of the matter in his waking moments, he will sometimes recall all the details of the affair in a dream.

All this I admit to be the fever of the mind—a waking dream—an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.

If only they both come to realise it in their normal waking states his Double will cease these nocturnal excursions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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