awaken

A fast, he insisted, was not blackmail but an act of suffering intended to awaken rather than coerce.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Lestat is handsome and wealthy, with extraordinary powers and musical talent so undeniable that they awaken the queen of vampires.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

"The pope is maybe the only person who can awaken the conscience a little bit of all the people who have harmed this territory," local worshipper Giuseppina De Francesco, 60, told AFP.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

It seemed to awaken a sense of the car’s potential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Each morning I seemed to awaken with new experiences and dreams strangely mixed into me.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Before leaving the village for the modern world, Yuru awakens Left and Right, two statues that have marked the entrance to the village.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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

Our dogs should be eating “real” food, they say, ideally raw meat—an “ancestral diet” that awakens their inner wolf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

Glinda meanwhile has become the poster girl of the Wizard's regime -- a position that brings her privilege and popularity, but also awakens guilt and shame, stemming from her childhood.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

One may look in vain for living creatures in the daytime, but when the sun goes and the night gives consent, a world of creatures awakens and takes up its intricate pattern.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

"By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation," Dipke, 30, said in a social media post, referring to Wangchuk.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Without realizing it, Kevin O’Leary may have awakened a new political uprising in Utah—one that could come back to bite the very lawmakers he partnered with for his latest moneymaking venture.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

"He has awakened from an induced coma and is doing well under the circumstances."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

He was awakened around 1:45 a.m., he said, by a call from Dick, who was monitoring the weather from the main office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

I’m awakened by a guy in light blue scrubs taking my blood.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

“It’s the beginning of an awakening that it can happen—that the default model that you use will be an open-source model in the future,” said Michael Stewart, a managing partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

"Worrying", "freefall" and "rude awakening" were all bandied around in the immediate aftermath of the club's heaviest ever two-legged European defeat as new boss Wouter Vrankcen's tenure got off to a rocky start.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

According to Variety, the script followed Madonna from her upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit, her artistic awakening in 1980s New York City, and concluded around the 1998 release of “Ray of Light.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Rasputin is in fact an ex-Green Beret from Buffalo, N.Y., named Patrick, but he had a religious awakening and now claims to be the reincarnated spirit of the notorious Russian mystic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

An auction in Savannah led him to the Randall plantation and his gruesome awakening.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead