awakens

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"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

Our dogs should be eating “real” food, they say, ideally raw meat—an “ancestral diet” that awakens their inner wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

What begins as a story of reinvention turns darkly operatic when their music awakens something hungry in the Delta night.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

Excited at discovering this, he cries out with joy so that his wife awakens.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes