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King Charles is accused of insensitively saying to Earl Spencer, in the wake of Diana's death in 1997, that "we'll forget her soon enough", according to excerpts published in the Daily Mail.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The reason such strength constitutes a bubble warning is that investors have to be particularly exuberant in order to bid growth stocks higher in the wake of rising interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

On the other end of the spectrum, acts have won praise for battling their way back to the spotlight in the wake of a health scare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

At the same time, the sport seems well-positioned to not only weather the blow, but perhaps even grow in its wake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

I want to wake her up, to tell her there’s a chance my rite is about to happen.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

The next day isn’t any better, and I make sure Helena has her hand on me before she wakes up.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

It also leaves the uncanny sense that the figure has waked from a long sleep and is keenly aware that you are observing its first flickering of consciousness.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

When he had more time to linger on the what-ifs, whether things would have been different had he just waked up earlier that Saturday and visited her.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022

Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, who lives in a palace not far from the train station, said the hordes had rudely waked him that morning.

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020

Maggie was troubled, “I … twice dreamt that you were very, very ill; and I waked each time weeping bitterly.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

We woke at 4:30 a.m. to slog through fields from cold morning dew through to blazing midday heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Ghizlan Saad, a Bahraini mother of two, said the sirens woke her family in the middle of the night, "bringing back memories of the attacks, of the fear and apprehension".

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The sun was streaming through the barracks windows when we woke up.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Holly said her boyfriend had been sleeping as the fire took hold, and was woken by a stranger ringing the doorbell.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

You’re not a true sports parent until you’ve woken up in the darkness to the magical patter of rain, and felt a joy you haven’t felt since your young athlete was born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

A couple hundred feet away, the noise had woken Dan Balch and Brian Thomas.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Hypnopompic hallucinations are what specialists call the unreal things people see or hear during the transition from sleep to waking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

For Stephen, "every waking hour" is spent worrying about his son.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

The more I listened, the louder Daddy got, till finally I peeked out from inside me, like I was just waking up.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan