wide-awake
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She does provide intricate detail about, for instance, how the station’s drinking water gets recycled from everyone’s urine, or how “the wide-awake, always-awake station vibrates with fans and filters.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023
But nodding off on the couch in the evening and then feeling wide-awake once you get into bed is “a typical pattern in chronic insomnia,” Pelayo says.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2022
According to the wide-awake folks at Partners Coffee, the ideal ratio of coffee to water is 1:15.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2022
Soon enough you’ll be looking for a happy, wide-awake emoji with stars in its eyes.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2021
I was lying in bed, wide-awake, completely incapable of shutting down either my brain or my body, when my phone buzzed on the table beside me.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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