as in consciousness
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as in to awake
to cease to be asleep
I woke with a start when the door slammed
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as in to warn
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 wake
David Matthews, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Cine's wake will be held on Thursday and his funeral will be on Friday.
—Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
At night, boats cannot go faster than 10 miles per hour, Abbott said, but wake surfing consistently stays at that speed.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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Kimmel had a tumultuous 2025, temporarily going off the air after conservative-leaning affiliate owners suspended the show following Kimmel’s remarks in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting.
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Relying on physical rather than supernatural powers, Makandal climbed out of a window, but the noise woke his guards and the plantation’s dogs, and he was soon recaptured.
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The fragile skeleton of her ego threatened to snap under the pressure of the animal forces that pressed down on her consciousness, her narrative mind sagging and distended beneath pitiless and grandiose feeling.—
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Through meditation, the mind naturally relaxes, settles into the present moment, and grants us access to our consciousness and our own innate intelligence.—
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Rice awakened the Immortals (including Cleopatra) in the early 1900s.—
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Your inner prankster awakens during Mercury retrograde.—
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The lightweight fabric is also quiet, so you won’t be awoken from crinkling material.—
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The most famous, perhaps, was of lung cancer patient David Prueitt, who swallowed a supposedly lethal dose of medication and awoke three days later.—
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Israel opened and closed Gaza’s borders with Egypt arbitrarily and without warning.—
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The United States and France first warned more than a decade ago that Russian satellites appeared to be spying and collecting information on their assets, including on commercially run satellites.—
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Green tea contains caffeine, which can promote wakefulness and alertness.—
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This midday slump is a natural dip in wakefulness your body experiences in the mid-afternoon.—
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Arsenal played attractive, threatening football, and looked poised for a rousing win.—
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For the record, both of those piano ballads were particularly rousing on Thursday evening.—
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Shortly thereafter, a bystander realized something wasn't right and alerted a lifeguard, Kauai Ocean Safety Bureau Chief Kalani Vierra told WBTW.—
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To understand what makes the mRNA shots special, the researchers examined blood and tissue samples and found that the COVID shots appeared to activate the innate immune system — a fundamental, early-warning defense mechanism that alerts other parts of the immune system to prepare for an attack.—
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“Wake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wake. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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