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woke

Definition for woke

adjective as in alert to social injustice

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In an ironic twist, his self-imposed blockade on collecting donations from “woke corporations” is one reason his digital ad team is spending more on Facebook.

From Digiday

Perhaps voters will view attacking the woke and cancel culture as the latest round of partisan fights around identity and race.

I’m not sure Republicans will stay on this message of attacking the woke and cancel culture.

Fourth, this anti-woke posture gives conservative activists and Republican officials a way to excuse extreme behavior in the past and potentially rationalize such behavior in the future.

Third, this anti-woke posture provides something of a policy infrastructure for the GOP, aligning with the party’s existing priorities and introducing some new ones.

One measly year later, Pam woke to find a naked Ewing grinning at her in the shower.

When she came to, she alleges that she woke up in his bed and Cosby had his shirt off.

She woke up and realized she had no recollection of the past several hours.

Another incident, in January, involved a Kenyan man, Paul Mutora, who woke up in the morgue 15 hours after being pronounced dead.

“I woke up and I was in the back of my car all alone,” Ferrier said.

The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.

Both animal and man seemed to be dozing, but they woke into activity when the sahib approached.

Instantly Eudora, who had seemed so listless, woke up with all the hospitality of her Southern nature roused to action.

Perhaps vanity was wounded there—that his successful rival woke contempt in her was unendurable.

It was two nights after this conversation that I woke out of deep sleep and heard sounds of screaming.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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