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wake

[wayk] / weɪk /
NOUN
formal observance of a body before funeral
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NOUN
trail behind something
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Fruit “I’m not hungry when I wake up, but I usually eat some fruit when I arrive at CBS Mornings before I go on the air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Instead, he said, he goes to bed early so he can wake up and record his daily show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

But every time I wake my phone to perform one of these little tasks, I’m also opening the door to everything else it contains: emails, notifications, messages I wasn’t planning to answer over lunch.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Sleep stimulates growth hormone production, but growth hormone also sends signals back to the brain that influence when we wake up.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

He was still breathing, but no matter what they tried, he wouldn’t wake up.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“He wakes up and he says ‘New day!’” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Lee and his colleagues developed a new method for detecting these quark wakes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

He wakes up around 3:30 p.m., grabs a snack and heads to the track to strategize with engineers on site and back in Germany and Switzerland—who are working in daylight six hours behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

My son wakes up and Nakano starts asking for mac and cheese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

On the morning of the first day after Christmas break, loud banging on our front door wakes me up.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Hurts had one last chance and his desperation pass fell way short and he waked off the field in dejection.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2023

Since the Australian show — now in its third season — reached American audiences on Disney+ in early 2020, parents have waked in the night with the melodica-driven theme song on hyperloop in their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

When he had more time to linger on the what-ifs, whether things would have been different had he just waked up earlier that Saturday and visited her.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022

For those of us who have waked on the couch on more than an occasional October night, that feels true, if only anecdotally.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

When I waked at Night, I seen that he does not sleep, but sits staring at the Walls.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“Suddenly the market woke up to the understanding that AI could generate massive cyber risks to organizations, and the only way to protect against that risk was with AI-native cybersecurity products,” Spergel said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"A few days ago, they ran a compressor test with a big bang... even the children who were asleep woke up in fear," said Ali, a retired paper mill worker.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

A lawyer for convicted murderer Christa Pike says that she woke up in hospital "angry and confused" after she survived a botched execution attempt last week.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Data from their smartwatches also indicated that they woke up fewer times during the night.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Then she said in a whisper, “I was so afraid…. Tom … do you know what I did when I woke up the first time? After the accident?”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

"What would have happened if they had woken me? This would not have happened," he said, suggesting that his response would have better protected Israel from the attacks.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

But fellow resident Anastasiia Grygorovych -- woken up when her window "fell on me" -- had already fled her home-town of Gorlivka, now occupied by Russia.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

You’re not a true sports parent until you’ve woken up in the darkness to the magical patter of rain, and felt a joy you haven’t felt since your young athlete was born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Fed officials have now woken up to the inflationary part of the AI story.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

‘My grandfather once got close to the Mountain,’ he’d explained when Torak had woken him in the night.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Centria said waking a 3-year-old as described by Hosking wouldn’t have complied with its policies, and such an incident wasn’t documented at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"I remember waking up in the morning and I couldn't stand. I was bent over in two. I could barely walk."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A second successful challenge and strikeout — and Yamamoto seemed to want to challenge, pointing to his head — would have helped the Dodgers evade the waking nightmare of the third inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The numbers weren’t too far off from the cuff readings I took shortly after waking up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The mesmerists waved their hands near clients’ faces, gently stroked their arms, or looked intently into their eyes until they fell into a kind of waking sleep.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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