awaken

"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."

From BBC ● 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

It seemed to awaken a sense of the car’s potential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026

I fall asleep in the midst of these vain prayers, and when I awaken, my knees ache from the cold stone floor and my hands are numb.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

This relic of combustion awakens in the morning with the refinement of a coffee grinder, winding at around 3,000 rpm until the catalytic converter heats up and the revs fall back to idle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The morning after giving birth, June awakens in her bed to find her baby gone; Bethel and Beauty are at the kitchen table in tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

"We used to think of the time before the genome awakens as a period of chaos," explains Noura Maziak, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

Glinda meanwhile has become the poster girl of the Wizard's regime -- a position that brings her privilege and popularity, but also awakens guilt and shame, stemming from her childhood.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

Gregor Samsa goes to sleep a human and awakens as an insect.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

His folk-singer brother first awakened his interest in politics while being "asked to leave" grammar school for "messing about" deepened his dislike of authority.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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.

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

A few mornings later, when he awakened, Hab was gone.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Villarreal: Something that stands out with Agnes is we’re witnessing her awakening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

Now, when people who leased an EV come into their dealership hoping for another, they have been in for a rude awakening, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

"Worrying", "freefall" and "rude awakening" were all bandied around in the immediate aftermath of the club's heaviest ever two-legged European defeat as new boss Wouter Vrankcen's tenure got off to a rocky start.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

They’re going to have a rude awakening anyway because they’re headed next door to Mrs. Franklin’s house, and she doesn’t like when people come by unannounced.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly