wake
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United's dismal running and sprinting stats made for stark reading in the wake of Neville's criticism.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
In the wake of the incident, executives left and an internal investigation began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Many stores carry iterations of the same styles, and in the wake of fast fashion, buying vintage clothing is the easiest way to be sure that what you’re wearing is different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
They kept talking daily, Mangan impatiently waiting for Timby to wake up seven hours behind him in Colorado.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Another wave crashes, which is enough to wake me up.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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A self-described “workaholic,” Cook famously wakes up at 4 a.m. to read customer and employee emails, then hits the gym and badges into Apple Park when he’s not traveling for diplomatic meetings or supply-chain audits.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
He said he wakes up to the sounds of black-bellied whistling ducks every morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
From the minute an athlete wakes, to the moment they go to bed, they are thinking about how they can optimise their performance and recovery.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“There is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y,’” Blanche said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
She even misses Zach Oh’s mom, who wakes him up every morning though he sets his alarm, who always nags him about getting his homework done though his homework is always done.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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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
Its name honored one of the first Old English poets, a 7th-century cowherd who was said to have waked up from a dream with the gift of verse and song.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 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
“My feet are like ice. They were so cold they waked me up.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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He said, ‘Today I woke up and it’s a new day.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
When he finally woke up, in an intensive care unit in Oklahoma City, about 90 miles northeast of Comanche, he learned that surgeons had removed 13 inches of his small intestine during emergency surgery.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"I took some ibuprofen, shrugged it off, went to sleep. I woke up the next day absolutely exhausted, no energy, really high fever."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
We woke at 4:30 a.m. to slog through fields from cold morning dew through to blazing midday heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The next day when I woke up, the first thing I laid eyes on was my stocking.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Ross Honeycomb, 39, was staying at the hotel with his family and told the BBC on Saturday how they were woken by fire alarms at about 01:00.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We were able to get to the hospital in time but if I hadn't woken up, I wouldn't be here."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Fed officials have now woken up to the inflationary part of the AI story.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
For more than four decades, Yuk Wong has woken up every day at 4 a.m. and cooked bacon from before the sun rises until closing time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s like my body’s woken up to what it’s supposed to do.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Roman's planet-imaging system, the Coronagraph Instrument, has also completed an early checkout of its digital, electronic, and mechanical systems after waking up earlier this month.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The 52-year-old commutes to Oia from nearby Imerovigli, where she rents an apartment with a home studio so she can spend every waking hour making bags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
His desire to create “boundary-pushing music” occupies most of his imagination, waking and liminal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
There is a particular kind of safety in waking to the sound of someone else already tending to the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
It all started well enough, with us waking up to the aroma of homemade flour tortillas wafting through the house.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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