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also waked (up)
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The warm kiss of 30-year mortgage rates below 6% in February appears to have awakened metro Denver’s housing market from its deep slumber.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2026 -
In the heart of Seville, Spain, a favorite European city among T+L readers, a Renaissance palace has awakened in the Casco Antiguo.—
Ryan Craggs,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Feb. 2026
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Iranians awoke Sunday for the first time in decades without Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as their supreme leader after he was killed in US-Israeli strikes, a profound shift in the nation’s history.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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Americans awoke Saturday morning to the news that the United States and Israel had launched a series of strikes against Iran.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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A number of easy and delicious pairings worked their way into our after-school rotation over the years, from peanut-butter fold-overs to yogurt stirred together with chocolate chips.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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The charms, some of which quickly sold out while others are not yet available for purchase, stirred a flurry of excitement online.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
1 Mar. 2026
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What roused them from complacency to defiance?—
Joshua Hammer,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Feb. 2026
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Within minutes, the federal agents had roused Thi Dua Vang from bed.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
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During this period, if not stimulated by visual input, the brain doesn’t develop face perception capabilities, even if the individual can see later in life.—
Sachin Rawat,
Big Think,
2 Mar. 2026
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Upon entering any art gallery or museum, visitors are consenting to having their imaginations stimulated with new concepts, designs and suggestions.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
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Jane Street may have also aroused jealousy among some traders for its massively profitable trading strategies, and the secret and eccentric behavior of co-founder Rob Granieri, described in a recent Bloomberg profile.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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Shane was both terrified and undeniably aroused by the idea.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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The United States and Israel are deploying hundreds of strike aircraft every day, plus drones, and all are animated by astonishingly detailed intelligence.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026
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The sculptural body seems animated, imbued with a powerful sense of faith, as if the human figure were made from stone.—
Li Qi,
Artforum,
6 Mar. 2026
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The bond, like the grief, is ongoing, ebbing and flowing with the passage of time, but enlivened in every memory cherished and in every story told.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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Her jokester father worked for a railway; her realtor mother was a gifted mimic whose impressions of clients enlivened family dinners.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Woke (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke%20%28up%29. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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