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wake

[weyk] / weɪk /
NOUN
formal observance of a body before funeral
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NOUN
trail behind something
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Biology Ph.D. student Tim Curtis Jr. participated in the work in Currie's lab, along with undergraduate Elena Singer-Freeman, a Goldwater Scholar and 2025 Wake Forest graduate in biochemistry and molecular biology.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

The previous record of 14 for the tournament was set 31 years earlier by Tim Duncan of Wake Forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Others arrived from noted football powers like Wake Forest and Old Dominion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

In her latest film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Kunis is police chief Geraldine Scott, a rational figure in the dark-comedy murder mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Why in heaven's name did you yell "Wake up"? The writer chose to emphasize the question, not the exclamation.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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