wakens

present tense third-person singular of waken

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wakens
Verb
  • My body wakes me up a few minutes before my alarm because of a weird dream.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Today's average founder wakes to a cascade of notifications scattered across Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, email, and TikTok.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, nearly 40 years later, the Schwartz awakens.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Wakens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wakens. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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