awaken
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A fast, he insisted, was not blackmail but an act of suffering intended to awaken rather than coerce.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Lestat is handsome and wealthy, with extraordinary powers and musical talent so undeniable that they awaken the queen of vampires.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
"The pope is maybe the only person who can awaken the conscience a little bit of all the people who have harmed this territory," local worshipper Giuseppina De Francesco, 60, told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
The siblings begin to awaken to the possibility of their liberation, from both the Communist regime and the paralyzing taboos of their aristocratic upbringing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“The others will only awaken as needed. With increasing darkness comes answering light,” said Boo.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
"We used to think of the time before the genome awakens as a period of chaos," explains Noura Maziak, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
"But when someone encounters us... when our message touches something deep within them, when it awakens the peace that has always lived quietly in their own heart -- something sacred begins to unfold."
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
She said she sometimes awakens in the middle of the night, struck by an idea about a rule or statute that might be of use.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
“Legend says that lighting the Lamp of Bharata awakens the Sleeper, a demon who will summon Lord Shiva, the fearsome Lord of Destruction, who will dance upon the world and bring an end to Time.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
"By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation," Dipke, 30, said in a social media post.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Without realizing it, Kevin O’Leary may have awakened a new political uprising in Utah—one that could come back to bite the very lawmakers he partnered with for his latest moneymaking venture.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
For Arsenal, it suddenly awakened memories of the club’s only previous trip to this stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Even stranger was the beeping that awakened Lassiter one morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
All the gold and magic must have awakened them from their winter sleep.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Villarreal: Something that stands out with Agnes is we’re witnessing her awakening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If the Tisza majority expects Baka to be a tame president, they may get a rude awakening.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Cservenka and OSU colleagues Julia Donner and Alexia Obrochta focused on what is commonly known as CAR, or the cortisol awakening response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
I knew immediately that the awakening had to do with the baby.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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