- present tense form of awaken (3rd person singular).
awakens
Example Sentences
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“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
"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
Our dogs should be eating “real” food, they say, ideally raw meat—an “ancestral diet” that awakens their inner wolf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
What begins as a story of reinvention turns darkly operatic when their music awakens something hungry in the Delta night.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
He awakens to tires crossing highway seams: Click-click.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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