: passed in a conscious or alert state
every waking hour
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Your Organization Is Your Family Most people spend more waking hours with colleagues than relatives.
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Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Students spend more waking hours a day at school than at home in the July-May.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends.
—Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
When nightmare scenarios move to the waking world, stark fictions and knotty personal histories offer guidance less in the factual specifics than in their emotional terrain.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
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Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Students spend more waking hours a day at school than at home in the July-May.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends.
—Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
When nightmare scenarios move to the waking world, stark fictions and knotty personal histories offer guidance less in the factual specifics than in their emotional terrain.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
See All Example Sentences for waking
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“Waking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waking. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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