awaken
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The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
A fast, he insisted, was not blackmail but an act of suffering intended to awaken rather than coerce.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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
Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.
From Salon ● Apr. 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
“For a lot of investors, this avalanche of supply awakens dark memories of other ebullient markets,” said Giuseppe Sette, co-founder and president of Reflexivity, an AI solutions group focused on the investment industry.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The rise in energy prices awakens memories of the 2022 crisis, but the backdrop now is different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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
On May 18, he awakens to find that someone has stolen his right shoe.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
The recent resignation of an Anthropic researcher has awakened the public to the shocking notion that runaway AI development could end humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Like Harvey, Williams was asleep when she was awakened by a phone call from her husband, who was out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
I was awakened by a bite on the ear.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
“In my mind, that was the great awakening nationally for private label,” Volpe said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Villarreal: Something that stands out with Agnes is we’re witnessing her awakening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If the Tisza majority expects Baka to be a tame president, they may get a rude awakening.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“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
Then he had fallen asleep, and on awakening he looked at the world like a new man.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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