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  • present participle of awaken.
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awakening

[uh-wey-kuh-ning] / əˈweɪ kə nɪŋ /


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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

“It’s the beginning of an awakening that it can happen—that the default model that you use will be an open-source model in the future,” said Michael Stewart, a managing partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Rather than fuel the animosity, the Friends made Saturday more of an awakening than a protest.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

Now he liked to lie in the warm sun on the open patches of ground and be part of the world’s awakening.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

When sleep is repeatedly disrupted by frequent awakenings, shorter sleep duration, or pauses in breathing, the cardiovascular system loses critical recovery time.

From Science Daily Mar. 1, 2026

A 2014 study that looked at the sleep diaries of 592 adults without sleep disorders found an average of 1.4 awakenings per night.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2025

If there was hope, and belief, that this type of performance was maybe behind them, then this was the rudest of rude awakenings.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2025

We need no reminder of rude awakenings; they’re already awaiting us as we exit the theater.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2023

There had been a time when I’d loathed such rude awakenings.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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