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awaken

[uh-way-kuhn] / əˈweɪ kən /


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But, despite being under new ownership, the third-tier side boast neither the ground nor local population to awaken that historic status any time soon.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Derek did not awaken, made no change of any kind.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

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

“Legend says that lighting the Lamp of Bharata awakens the Sleeper, a demon who will summon Lord Shiva, the fearsome Lord of Destruction, who will dance upon the world and bring an end to Time.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Higazi Shawer al-Tamimi, 70, a shopkeeper who plays a leadership role in the neighbourhood, said he was awakened at 1:00 am by soldiers and a senior officer who said he had to leave.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Chaos erupted, sleeping soldiers were awakened and some ended up designated as dead, the Danish commander said with evident satisfaction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

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

She awakened me what I guessed to be a few minutes later, not with ghoulish wails as might be expected, but as a mother would wake up her beloved child.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

She was said to have provided an intellectual awakening of music on the West Coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

A landmark 1962 Supreme Court ruling against state-sponsored prayer in public schools helped spark his political awakening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

She explained about the Argo II and their voyage to stop the giants from awakening Gaea.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan


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