wake up
Example Sentences
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The “Messy” hitmaker told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that she was grateful that she fainted onstage late last year, and framed the scary ordeal as a wake-up call.
From Los Angeles Times
Should this be a wake-up call?
From BBC
At 4 a.m. they receive wake-up calls and are driven to a processing station where they undergo physical examinations, vocational counseling and other steps that at day’s end or soon thereafter, with their families invited to be present, will culminate with their Oath of Enlistment.
"We can call it a wake-up call," says Breuer.
From BBC
“The fact that non-fuel import prices increased so much is a wake-up call for policymakers and will keep the Federal Reserve in pause for longer than expected,” said Eugenio Aleman, chief economist at Raymond James.
From MarketWatch
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