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
"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."
From BBC ● 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
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
They only ate what he handed over and slept so deeply he was afraid, in the morning, that they might never awaken.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
“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 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 “dead,” mingling with the churning and bubbling noises in this room, strikes a blow like a hammer to my chest, and the monster of grief awakens, clawing at my eyes and throat.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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
His folk-singer brother first awakened his interest in politics while being "asked to leave" grammar school for "messing about" deepened his dislike of authority.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
He had awakened on this morning with a hungering need to bark out orders and have them carried out with speed and efficiency.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
“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
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
The canines on these hummers were as big as the canines on any guard dog you’ll ever see, and that was a rude awakening.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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