wake
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“The last 6 weeks of my life have been a nightmare I’m praying to wake up from,” he wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the wake of the tragedy, rumors of sabotage were rampant: Some persist to this day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It was set up by the former defence secretary, Ben Wallace, in the wake of allegations first reported by BBC Panorama, in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The reason such strength constitutes a bubble warning is that investors have to be particularly exuberant in order to bid growth stocks higher in the wake of rising interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
She led Clare up a tight, spiraling staircase, shedding coils of moss in her wake.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The alarm wakes you with a shock, the summer holiday is over and it's time to face that inbox full of unread emails.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
“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
Julian Hoffman’s remarkable new memoir begins with birds: “The sky was a harbor all of a sudden. Wherever you looked, wings furrowed wakes in the air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
My mom wakes me up earlier than usual the next morning with a serious expression on her face.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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Police said Martin had waked up and began to drive away with the officer inside.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 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
Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, who lives in a palace not far from the train station, said the hordes had rudely waked him that morning.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
He says Henry was munching on weeds when he waked up to him.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
I was waked by the heavy door of the gym slamming open.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
"He woke up and could hear shouting, so he knocked on everyone's doors," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen was asleep in Tokyo and woke up to several frantic calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ghizlan Saad, a Bahraini mother of two, said the sirens woke her family in the middle of the night, "bringing back memories of the attacks, of the fear and apprehension".
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
When he woke again, he was in a different place.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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"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
“Frankly, I felt woken up by this,” Gere told the packed crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Belgian's comments came as Jonas Vingegaard was woken at 02:00 and race leader Tadej Pogacar at 05:00 local time for tests before Sunday's stage - in which the Dane crashed and broke his collarbone.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Once he’d woken up two centimeters taller than when he’d gone to sleep.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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“Every waking second of my life will be dedicated to the success of this program,” Lupoi said during his introductory news conference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I spend every waking hour thinking about how we get power and water to our sites responsibly,” says Oyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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 has become indispensable for organizing my waking hours, prioritizing critical tasks and remembering important obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even as I prayed, that waking dream passed again before my eyes.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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