waken
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If, for example, they don’t waken spontaneously in the morning, have tantrums, can’t focus in school or are sleepy in the afternoons, they might not be getting enough sleep.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
According to the officers’ lawsuit, police spent 40 minutes trying to waken the couple, including using their sirens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
"You would just waken up with bolt and there was basically a gap between the bottom of Bill's bed and the desks and this figure was just standing in the gap," Billy said.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2021
It may waken you in the middle of the night.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2013
Torak longed to waken Renn and tell her everything.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Finally, there is an a cappella performance of the Irish song of rebellion “A Row in the Town,” and it is performed with an anger that wakens the senses as it freezes the blood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
As in the novel, Joseph wakens one morning to the news that he has been accused of some unspecified crime, of which he can never prove himself innocent.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015
“This move by the IOC will be the call that wakens a sleeping tiger,” he said.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013
"Heavy weather" not only mirrors the patients' psychic turmoil and confusion; it wakens sensuous private memories.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2010
The carter wakens, snorts, stretches himself before climbing down.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room," one resident told BBC Scotland.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Digital citizens and consumers must be wakened from their slumber, privacy advocates believe, and give thought to the security of their personal information, and how they are surrendering themselves to the power of their spies.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022
Uday Ibrahim Ali, a generator repairman, is routinely wakened for urgent fixes in Basra’s Zubair neighborhood.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
When the lights went on in the morning, she had a few minutes before Poppy wakened to work at the puzzle.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Barbara, who works with Joanne, said it was "such a shock wakening up to this".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
And then I realized it was just my brain and my ears wakening up again to “this is what a theater sounds like.”
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
“It’s certainly some from new ownership. And it’s certainly from a wakening up from the league governance side; that you can’t keep doing things the way they were doing it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2018
“As core as ritual is, it’s a wakening practice to live lives of courage. Social justice is potentially more important to shape Jewish identity,” Jacobs said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2015
As I walked to the embassy, I listened to the gradual wakening of the city.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
