awaken

A fast, he insisted, was not blackmail but an act of suffering intended to awaken rather than coerce.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Lestat is handsome and wealthy, with extraordinary powers and musical talent so undeniable that they awaken the queen of vampires.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Daily, she would awaken as early as 5 a.m. to review homework assignments before beginning class at 7 a.m. at Hesperia High.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

"The pope is maybe the only person who can awaken the conscience a little bit of all the people who have harmed this territory," local worshipper Giuseppina De Francesco, 60, told AFP.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

She tried in vain to awaken love in them by means of the bird cage that Úrsula had built during the first reconstruction of the house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The 12-year-old student council member spoke about how the shofar, the ram’s horn blown during High Holy Days, awakens Jews to reflect on and reaffirm their beliefs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“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

The humble tomato, beloved by many yet scorned by some, slowly awakens from hibernation, reminding us that warm weather, spent indulging in fresh salads and produce-filled sandwiches, is almost here.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

A wolf, asleep with his head on his paws, awakens at the sound of my footsteps and opens his eyes but does not lift his head.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

“We have awakened so many people, but there’s so many more people to awaken,” Morales said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

"By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation," Dipke, 30, said in a social media post, referring to Wangchuk.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Without realizing it, Kevin O’Leary may have awakened a new political uprising in Utah—one that could come back to bite the very lawmakers he partnered with for his latest moneymaking venture.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

For Arsenal, it suddenly awakened memories of the club’s only previous trip to this stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

I did not refuse it, for my appetite was awakened and keen.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

If the Tisza majority expects Baka to be a tame president, they may get a rude awakening.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Cservenka and OSU colleagues Julia Donner and Alexia Obrochta focused on what is commonly known as CAR, or the cortisol awakening response.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Ms. Day conveys Gelsomina’s strange existential awakening with a mix of narrative strategies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

According to Variety, the script followed Madonna from her upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit, her artistic awakening in 1980s New York City, and concluded around the 1998 release of “Ray of Light.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

It didn’t help that Charlie’s face appeared before me, awakening memories of his kind and tender ways.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson