awoke 1 of 2

variants also awaked
past tense of awake

awoken

2 of 2

verb (2)

variants also awaked or awoke
past participle of awake

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Last Christmas morning over 5,000 children awoke to an empty stocking — the bitter pain of disappointment that Santa Claus had forgotten them. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2024 Doe lost consciousness and awoke fully nude on his stomach with Combs raping him. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024 When the victim awoke the following day, Combs was gone, and people who had been recording the assault handed him $2,500 in cash, the suit claims. Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024 Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attacks, here's a look at some of the photos during and after the bombings that awoke the sleeping giant. James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024 In Texas, Reese Hamsmith awoke one morning in 2020 congested and wheezing. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024 Seoul, South Korea CNN — Seoul residents awoke to a gleaming world of white this week, as record snowfall caused both disruption and delight across the South Korean capital. Jessie Yeung, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 The data gleaned from those devices was then used to create a sleep regularity index from (SRI) from 0-100 based on variability in bedtime, wake times, sleep duration, and how many times someone awoke during the night. New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2024 While most Americans either followed the tallies into the bleary-eyed early-morning hours or awoke to news of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, people in much of the world were in daytime work mode when the race was called. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
Last Christmas morning over 5,000 children awoke to an empty stocking — the bitter pain of disappointment that Santa Claus had forgotten them. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2024 The next morning, Sitting Bull was awoken by officers knocking on the door of his cabin on the Grand River. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2024 Losing Soto also seems to have awoken Yankees' general manager Brian Cashman as well. Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024 When the victim awoke the following day, Combs was gone, and people who had been recording the assault handed him $2,500 in cash, the suit claims. Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024 Doe lost consciousness and awoke fully nude on his stomach with Combs raping him. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024 Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attacks, here's a look at some of the photos during and after the bombings that awoke the sleeping giant. James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024 In Texas, Reese Hamsmith awoke one morning in 2020 congested and wheezing. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024 Seoul, South Korea CNN — Seoul residents awoke to a gleaming world of white this week, as record snowfall caused both disruption and delight across the South Korean capital. Jessie Yeung, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024

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