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
She was back to deuce with Arthur Ashe Stadium abuzz and presumably most of Britain wide-awake, as the match was broadcast in prime time in Raducanu’s home country.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2021
She hoped so, for her wide-awake dream was hardly amusing—it was desperate.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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