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awakening

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verb

present participle of awaken

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for awakening
Adjective
  • Your Organization Is Your Family Most people spend more waking hours with colleagues than relatives.
    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
Adjective
  • Squeezing lube out of a bottle until the cold goop squirts out isn't the most arousing act.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Some research suggests that men around the world find a specific waist-to-hip ratio (0.7) to be most arousing.
    Ogi Ogas, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2011
Adjective
  • Bartholomew Burcham contributes a lively editorial pace and Jeff Russo a sufficiently rousing score.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • By the calculus of marquee appeal, this final face-off makes sense: What could be more rousing, in theory, than Mescal versus Denzel — than pitting a rising star against one of Hollywood’s most bankable veterans?
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The Anatomy of the Horses takes the viewer on a visually and intellectually stimulating journey through the space-time continuum, during which director Daniel Vidal Toche reflects upon whether the struggle against oppression and exploitation in Peru will ever come to an end.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • Join The Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library on Wednesday, June 18 on for a stimulating tactical discussion about Juneteenth.
    Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
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“Awakening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awakening. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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