wake
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Gore, a dad in Chicago, said his daughter was accepted off the wait list at Wake Forest University this spring and given mere days to decide whether to commit.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Biology Ph.D. student Tim Curtis Jr. participated in the work in Currie's lab, along with undergraduate Elena Singer-Freeman, a Goldwater Scholar and 2025 Wake Forest graduate in biochemistry and molecular biology.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
The previous record of 14 for the tournament was set 31 years earlier by Tim Duncan of Wake Forest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Others arrived from noted football powers like Wake Forest and Old Dominion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
“Shirley, Shirley, wake up. It’s time to go to school. Wake up.”
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
Vocabulary lists containing wake
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act II
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