awakens

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The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"We used to think of the time before the genome awakens as a period of chaos," explains Noura Maziak, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

"But when someone encounters us... when our message touches something deep within them, when it awakens the peace that has always lived quietly in their own heart -- something sacred begins to unfold."

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

What begins as a story of reinvention turns darkly operatic when their music awakens something hungry in the Delta night.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

But in its stead, I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini