wakeful
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Blocking these receptors leads to a more wakeful state that can increase focus, said Dr. Oliver Grundmann, who studies how plants affect the brain at the University of Florida.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2024
Identifying processes in the brain that underlie sleep-deprived boosting of mood could lead to therapies that are less burdensome than enduring a wakeful night.
From Scientific American • Jul. 3, 2023
“Considering that CIA has been crippled, it will be natural that this service tries to restore and rebuild itself, and of course Iranian intelligence community will always be wakeful and vigilant,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2019
I was struck by the recurrent image of sleeping women and vigilantly wakeful ones — like Penelope — in literature and art.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2018
More wakeful than he’d been, he realized that winter had become less cold, and he bestirred himself to be up and around.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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