rouse
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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
Who needs one when your smartphone can rouse you from sleep?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
It did rouse huge cheers in the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026
The 40-year-old Wawrinka must try and rouse himself on his Australian Open farewell after a gruelling five-set win in round two.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Then he shook himself as if trying to rouse himself awake.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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
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
Wearing crisp white shirts and matching red ties, the band rouses the congregation with melodic exaltations and a crash of symbols.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
His fingers go back to my hair and I doze off, but he rouses me to see the sunset.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Earlier that same night, his main rival Jonas Vingegaard was also roused from sleep outside normal testing hours for a control around 2 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Tuchel roused himself enough to provide a passionate defence of his efforts during the late capitulation against Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s cryptic weekend tweet has roused speculation about whether he is planning to build a semiconductor fabrication facility, or fab, something that costs tens of billions of dollars to build.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
They have been roused to action and then abandoned so many times, not least by American presidents.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
When we got to the track, my mom told Qareeb and me to go find our coaches while she roused my sisters from their sleep.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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
That’s not exactly the kind of rousing Churchillian attitude that fans back home are hoping for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
It was in early 2024 that he gave a rousing speech to the Commons that some even regarded as the speech of his life.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
This was seen as a rousing success for Greenspan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri’s poignant narrative.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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