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also waked (up)
as in zipped (up)
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Communities across the Midwest, South and Northeast awakened Monday to subzero weather.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Jan. 2026 -
Many communities across the Midwest, South, and Northeast awakened Monday to subzero weather.—
Charlotte Kramon,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Residents of Monticello, San Juan County’s seat, and the site of a uranium mill from 1942 to 1960, awoke to a fine yellow dust on windowsills during the mill’s heyday.—
Zak Podmore,
Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2026
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Early on New Year’s Day, people in neighborhoods along Chollas Creek awoke to flooding in their streets.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2026
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Cruz’s effort has stirred questions in Washington, with early donations meant to fully help the nominee largely being steered to Cruz.—
Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Aquarius New Moon Solar Eclipse earlier in the month may have stirred subconscious fears or old patterns, but by the end of February, clarity replaces confusion.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Jan. 2026
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Shapiro and his wife, Lori, roused the rest of the household.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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Just as legendary as his triumphs have been his fist pumps, his reactions to good and bad shots, and his celebrations that roused the crowds.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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These channels are tuned to trigger a voltage spike and tell the trap to close only if stimulated multiple times in rapid succession.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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Many contests maintain that the frogs can be stimulated humanely to jump, such as someone blowing on them or clapping their hands behind them.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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This coming game has aroused a great deal of interest throughout the state, and many will go to Athens to witness the event and wear the colors of their favorite team.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Research shows that when partners are physiologically aroused due to emotional overwhelm per minute during conflict, problem solving and empathy decline sharply.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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In the wind its movements could look somewhat animated, so that the tumbleweed appeared to be a breathing body.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Long a symbol of motion, freedom and prestige, the horse has animated countless brand codes.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
23 Jan. 2026
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All of the pastas are made in-house and include spaghetti tossed with crab meat and lobster cream or rigatoni in creamy vodka sauce enlivened with a punch of Calabrian chiles and plenty of garlic.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
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All of the pastas are made in-house and include spaghetti tossed with crab meat and lobster cream or rigatoni in creamy vodka sauce enlivened with a punch of Calabrian chiles and plenty of garlic.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Woke (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke%20%28up%29. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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