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woke

Definition for woke

adjective as in alert to social injustice

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But over the course of three weeks, as candidate after candidate was vanquished by the sharply divided Republican caucus, God woke him up in the middle of the night and said, “Wait, wait, wait.”

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There’s no way around the grotesque fact that millions of people all over the world woke up on Friday, Oct.

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MacPhail woke at 2:20 a.m. and applied toe caps, duct tape and Vaseline to his feet.

The next morning, Chesson, who was 58 at the time and 17 years into a second career as a flight attendant, woke up feeling like her brain was on fire.

Weiss then started a newsletter that eventually grew into the Free Press, positioning the news and opinion site as a check on what she saw as the media’s adherence to a “woke” ideology.

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

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