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Recent Examples of awaken Aldana and Morales Rolón were awakened around dawn by agents banging on their door. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Gnawing paranoia inevitably awakens Pynchon’s characters to the matrix of control enveloping their lives. John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025 What unfolded in one executive committee meeting illustrates how AI can awaken the imagination, shift entrenched mindsets, and unlock new avenues for growth—even in seasoned executives. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 One by one, the Addamses awaken, and then Isaac-Slurp does, too. Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for awaken
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Verb
  • Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If anything, conflict is to be expected; seeing eye-to-eye every waking moment of every day would be far more concerning.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Billy awoke to the sound of another alarm going off in the plant.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Earlier that week, the men awoke in their cells at four in the morning, the usual time.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But not all Chinese companies gave them a rousing reception at a time of intense nationalism and national security suspicions under Xi.
    Joyce Jiang, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Michael Caton-Jones’ rousing historical epic is the sort of movie that hardly gets made anymore.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Awaken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awaken. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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