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rouse

[rouz] / raʊz /




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However, this team has shown their ability to rouse themselves, and ultimately they got the job done here.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

When it comes to exciting wide men, however, it's hard to look past those elite dribblers who rouse crowds and make full-backs fret.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

It did rouse huge cheers in the room.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2026

And then, before they could rouse him from his apparent stupor, he leapt to his feet and banged out the little house’s entryway and into the muddy alley.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

January is an odd month in the art world, as it rouses itself from its holiday slumber but struggles to shake off the sleepiness of the past month.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

In Ridley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien,” the crew of the Nostromo rouses from slumber to answer a distress call that spells their doom.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

Lamb’s equally misfit team are known in the Park as the “slow horses,” and Lamb rouses himself only to remind them that they are there to do nothing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

In a middle car, J Herbert Sigmon rouses a dozing young man as the train glides toward Pioneer Square.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2023

A rusty iron door, set into the part of the wall visible to the Row’s occupants, rouses the pigeons whenever it is opened, puts them in a flap, for the hinges creak so, scream.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

French captures that sense of urgency in his figure who strides forward, musket in hand, roused to action by something perceived in the distance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

That includes my first wilderness campsite near Ford Point, where a several-thousand-pound elephant seal roused me from slumber with its jarring bark.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

According to The New York Times, Hellerstein was seen falling asleep during a trial last year and needed to be roused by his colleagues.

From Barron's Mar. 24, 2026

Jones' performance was the type that can have a lasting effect on a fighter's career but he and Wood roused the fans on a night when the atmosphere was sometimes flat at the O2 Arena.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

But as soon as it stopped raining, Yao roused us for our morning shift.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Nasa never missed a note, and he received another outsized ovation after the rousing end credits.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Comprising over 300 works, spread over two levels of the Grand Palais, “Matisse: 1941-1954” is a rousing reminder that he went on making significant oil-on-canvas works until the early 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Stokes had earlier received a rousing reception when he came into the attack in the morning session.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

This was seen as a rousing success for Greenspan.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Then Mr. Larson led a rousing class discussion, more like a shouting match, about which kind of editorial treatment was best.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements




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