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1
as in awoke
to cause to stop sleeping
my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife
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2
as in awakened
to cease to be asleep
I woke with a start when the door slammed
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3
as in warned
to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk
a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving
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Recent Examples of woke
Moderate shaking woke residents near the epicenter and was strong enough to break dishes, while light tremors rippled across the broader Bay Area.
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Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Thousands of Oracle workers woke Tuesday to an email from their employer informing them that their jobs had been cut with immediate effect, in what appears to one of the largest mass layoffs in the tech giant’s history.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
The attitude of their teachers in Chicago was damagingly woke.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
Reilly’s lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, has said that on the night of the shooting, Reilly’s daughter woke him up after the driver rang the doorbell.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Thousands of Oracle workers woke Tuesday to an email from their employer informing them that their jobs had been cut with immediate effect, in what appears to one of the largest mass layoffs in the tech giant’s history.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
The attitude of their teachers in Chicago was damagingly woke.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
Reilly’s lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, has said that on the night of the shooting, Reilly’s daughter woke him up after the driver rang the doorbell.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woke
Verb
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Yet inwardly, psychologically, something new awoke inside Caldwell.—
Namir Khaliq,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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Exports spiked; Americans awoke to the pleasures of their native whiskey.—
Adam Sachs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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One night, Altman took an Ambien, only to be awakened by his husband, an Australian coder named Oliver Mulherin, who told him that Sutskever was wavering, and that people were telling Altman to speak with the board.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The four astronauts will be awakened after about four hours to perform an additional engine firing that will put Orion into the correct orbital geometry for its translunar injection (TLI) burn on flight day 2.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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When Karaban ripped the ball out of Wagler’s hands with a little more than four minutes left in the first half and led a fast break that resulted in Mullins’ three-point play, the Huskies were the bullies Wagler had been warned about.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Another surgery swapped out her breast implants to erase her shoulder pain in 2022, Dishell said, but doctors warned her then that her other pain was unlikely to improve.—
Brett Kelman,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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There could have been another one on Friday night in Indianapolis against the Pacers before OG Anunoby roused himself in the second half.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Thursday’s moment roused immediate boos from the crowd on Stadium 2.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Authorities said Brian Hooker then paddled to shore and alerted someone about her disappearance early Sunday.—
R.j. Rico,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Back also expressed enthusiasm for Japan around that same time after a Japanese Cypherpunk alerted him about the country’s first remailer, a service for anonymizing online messages and email exchanges.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Woke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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