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awaken

[uh-wey-kuhn] / əˈweɪ kən /


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"Some officials in the United States still have yet to awaken from their escapist and anachronistic dream," she said.

From Barron's Jun. 7, 2026

"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."

From BBC May 28, 2026

Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2026

Coop’s larcenous ways awaken something in him that the straight-laced corporate life had repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

Then I dream that I am falling into deep water, and I cannot swim but awaken gasping for air.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"We used to think of the time before the genome awakens as a period of chaos," explains Noura Maziak, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

"But when someone encounters us... when our message touches something deep within them, when it awakens the peace that has always lived quietly in their own heart -- something sacred begins to unfold."

From Barron's Feb. 3, 2026

Our dogs should be eating “real” food, they say, ideally raw meat—an “ancestral diet” that awakens their inner wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

What begins as a story of reinvention turns darkly operatic when their music awakens something hungry in the Delta night.

From Salon Oct. 27, 2025

A wolf, asleep with his head on his paws, awakens at the sound of my footsteps and opens his eyes but does not lift his head.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

“We have awakened so many people, but there’s so many more people to awaken,” Morales said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

"By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation," Dipke, 30, said in a social media post.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Without realizing it, Kevin O’Leary may have awakened a new political uprising in Utah—one that could come back to bite the very lawmakers he partnered with for his latest moneymaking venture.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

"He has awakened from an induced coma and is doing well under the circumstances."

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

In his half-dreams he saw his friend very vividly, and when he awakened a great aching loneliness would be in him.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Villarreal: Something that stands out with Agnes is we’re witnessing her awakening.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

If the Tisza majority expects Baka to be a tame president, they may get a rude awakening.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Cservenka and OSU colleagues Julia Donner and Alexia Obrochta focused on what is commonly known as CAR, or the cortisol awakening response.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

They began to feel that all this country was unreal, and that they were stumbling through an ominous dream that led to no awakening.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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