wake

"One day I'm going to wake up in my mother's house – 57 years old with nothing but my stuff in a bag next to the bed."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Main fell into a coma and, for three weeks, seemed unlikely to wake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

I am not a morning person, so when I wake up I’ll have what I call “starter coffee,” at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics has promised to further efforts to reform the Church in the wake of the global sexual abuse scandal.

From Barron's

He was still breathing, but no matter what they tried, he wouldn’t wake up.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Still, though it wakes up when we get to the storming of the Bastille, economically but effectively rendered, and, later the Reign of Terror, in between it can turn into a murky, mopey slog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

A self-described “workaholic,” Cook famously wakes up at 4 a.m. to read customer and employee emails, then hits the gym and badges into Apple Park when he’s not traveling for diplomatic meetings or supply-chain audits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

From the minute an athlete wakes, to the moment they go to bed, they are thinking about how they can optimise their performance and recovery.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

“There is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y,’” Blanche said.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

It’s no surprise when he wakes early to a new smell coming from downstairs.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Since the Australian show — now in its third season — reached American audiences on Disney+ in early 2020, parents have waked in the night with the melodica-driven theme song on hyperloop in their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

He has waked up the sleeping giant that is the Philadelphia Orchestra.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

“And you’d open your eyes, and she’d be right in your face looking sideways and say, ‘Daddy, I waked up.’”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

“And you’d open your eyes, and she’d be right in your face looking sideways and say, ‘Daddy, I waked up.'”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2018

“My feet are like ice. They were so cold they waked me up.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

When he finally woke up, in an intensive care unit in Oklahoma City, about 90 miles northeast of Comanche, he learned that surgeons had removed 13 inches of his small intestine during emergency surgery.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

"He woke up and could hear shouting, so he knocked on everyone's doors," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The New Hampshire-born, Utah-raised artist was once a former shoe factory worker from Maine whose singer-songwriter journey began when he woke up one morning to Stephen Stills’ “Treetop Flyer” on his clock radio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen was asleep in Tokyo and woke up to several frantic calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

I woke one morning to a pixie on my nose.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Ross Honeycomb, 39, was staying at the hotel with his family and told the BBC on Saturday how they were woken by fire alarms at about 01:00.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Fed officials have now woken up to the inflationary part of the AI story.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

For more than four decades, Yuk Wong has woken up every day at 4 a.m. and cooked bacon from before the sun rises until closing time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Frankly, I felt woken up by this,” Gere told the packed crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The medley of sounds and images that had woken him up vaporized the way dreams do, and his mind raced back through the rooms he’d slept in over the years until he remembered the McKays.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

His desire to create “boundary-pushing music” occupies most of his imagination, waking and liminal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

“I spend every waking hour thinking about how we get power and water to our sites responsibly,” says Oyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

What mattered was less that the meal satisfied any established definition of breakfast than that, sometime after waking, you had allowed yourself to be fed.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

It has become indispensable for organizing my waking hours, prioritizing critical tasks and remembering important obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Excuse me, Mr. Keeney,” said Jake, gently waking him.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein