awaken

Example Sentences

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Once traders sense blood in the water, Treasuries should awaken.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

In other words, to turn on and awaken their inner potential, tune in to the state of society around them and to drop out of social norms of the time.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

Maybe it will awaken a sleeping American public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’” he writes.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025

The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker