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"Some officials in the United States still have yet to awaken from their escapist and anachronistic dream," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Brown kiwis have been reintroduced to a “newly stoat-free Wellington suburb,” where residents now awaken every morning to the screeches and songs of native parrots, pigeons and tuis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

Then they went into José Arcadio Buendía's room, shook him as hard as they could, shouted in his ear, put a mirror in front of his nostrils, but they could not awaken him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This relic of combustion awakens in the morning with the refinement of a coffee grinder, winding at around 3,000 rpm until the catalytic converter heats up and the revs fall back to idle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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 morning after giving birth, June awakens in her bed to find her baby gone; Bethel and Beauty are at the kitchen table in tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 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

One evening Father awakens and asks to hold the Torah in his arms.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

"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

For Arsenal, it suddenly awakened memories of the club’s only previous trip to this stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Dicey had slept and awakened in so many unknown places that she never had that first, morning feeling of being lost, or not knowing where she was.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

“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, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.'

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan