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awaken

[uh-way-kuhn] / əˈweɪ kən /


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Her glimpses of the uncanny awaken dormant instincts of motherhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was here millennia ago," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Daily, she would awaken as early as 5 a.m. to review homework assignments before beginning class at 7 a.m. at Hesperia High.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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

She watched them with wide eyes, frightened they’d awaken, but then they all settled back into sleep.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

The 12-year-old student council member spoke about how the shofar, the ram’s horn blown during High Holy Days, awakens Jews to reflect on and reaffirm their beliefs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

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

Excited at discovering this, he cries out with joy so that his wife awakens.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I used to vacation in a cabin on Narragansett Bay where I was typically awakened to a symphony of gulls and other birds; I’d often wondered if other jazz musicians saw possibilities in these sounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“We have awakened so many people, but there’s so many more people to awaken,” Morales said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

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

It hadn’t escaped her notice either that she had been the one awakened to cut grass.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The remarkable display followed months of unusually wet weather, awakening seeds that had been lying dormant beneath the soil.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

That people come out in multitudes is no proof of some new awakening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“In my mind, that was the great awakening nationally for private label,” Volpe said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Thus the mercantile tradition contributed to the great Ionian awakening around 600 B.C., and, through slavery, may have been the cause of its decline some two centuries later.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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