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wide-awake

[wahyd-uh-weyk] / ˈwaɪd əˈweɪk /


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All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take.

From Seattle Times Apr. 22, 2024

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

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

If I wanted to wake her, all I’d need to say is “Oprah” and she’d be wide-awake, hollering for her Coke-bottle glasses and for me to turn on the TV.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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