wake
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"Don't wake me up, this is every jockey's dream," Brown said in a post-race interview.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
By February 2009, with the global economy bottoming out in the wake of the financial crisis, beaten-down and low-rated cyclical stocks staged a massive rebound that left top-rated names behind.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Detritus accumulates like a wake behind a songwriter because songwriters are loath to continue to try to promote a piece of material that has any disappointment attached to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Insomnia affects millions of people and can make it difficult to fall asleep, remain asleep throughout the night, or wake up feeling rested.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Corrie, do you remember, the day we were arrested, a man came to the shop? You were sick and I had to wake you up.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Nearly every weekday after Kate Johnson wakes up in Seattle, she soon calls Chris Stansbury in Denver to say, “All right, I’m up. What you got?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The observed wakes also matched predictions from Rajagopal's hybrid model.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
He wakes up around 3:30 p.m., grabs a snack and heads to the track to strategize with engineers on site and back in Germany and Switzerland—who are working in daylight six hours behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
My son wakes up and Nakano starts asking for mac and cheese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
She doesn’t know I’m awake, doesn’t know that I know she does this every single morning—that she opens the door and just stands there and stares at me before she wakes us.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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Police said Martin had waked up and began to drive away with the officer inside.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
Since the Australian show — now in its third season — reached American audiences on Disney+ in early 2020, parents have waked in the night with the melodica-driven theme song on hyperloop in their heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, who lives in a palace not far from the train station, said the hordes had rudely waked him that morning.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
He says Henry was munching on weeds when he waked up to him.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
He began to flounder wildly, as if he had waked to find himself in ten feet of water.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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But, seven months into her pregnancy in February 2023, Danielle woke up feeling unwell.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
In a statement dictated to her legal team, Pike said she entered her scheduled execution at peace and woke up several days later at a hospital, “confused and in pain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Then, on Monday morning, passengers woke up to a message from Villa Vie chief executive Kathy Villalba.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"I woke up at night, heard bangs, looked out of the window and there was a fire," 40-year-old Saint Petersburg resident Igor told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Thor woke from his nap just when Laurence was finishing the last bath, which was for an inky spaniel named Webster.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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"I think the housing crisis has woken young people up," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Several people have told the BBC they were woken by police in the early hours of Sunday and ordered to leave.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
But fellow resident Anastasiia Grygorovych -- woken up when her window "fell on me" -- had already fled her home-town of Gorlivka, now occupied by Russia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Have you ever slept next to a snoring partner and woken up feeling stressed, unfocused or forgetful the next day?
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Today, though, Tall Tailless had woken up before the light, and in a very different mood.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
As growth hormone gradually builds up during sleep, it stimulates neurons in the locus coeruleus, increasing their activity and helping promote the transition toward waking.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
"I remember waking up in the morning and I couldn't stand. I was bent over in two. I could barely walk."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
A second successful challenge and strikeout — and Yamamoto seemed to want to challenge, pointing to his head — would have helped the Dodgers evade the waking nightmare of the third inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
If this was a dybbuk, it was waking up.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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