woke

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Bill Cody, the Grand Ole Opry and longtime WSM Radio host who woke up listeners with his velvet voice and country music lore, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The next morning, I woke up feeling sick.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

"When I woke up," Javed said in the recording, "I could still smell it."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

The only other time she’d seen him like that, she notes, was after he woke up from surgery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

I woke one morning to a pixie on my nose.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff