awaken
Example Sentences
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"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."
From BBC • May 28, 2026
It seemed to awaken a sense of the car’s potential.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 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
She saw the corporate demos as tools to awaken Xerox to the corporate value of the work being done at PARC.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Doctors lacked advanced medical tools, so a corpse was watched for three days to be certain it did not awaken.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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