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1
as in woke
to cause to stop sleeping
awoke the boys for breakfast
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as in waked
to cease to be asleep
at the sound of breaking glass she awoke with a start
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Residents of parts of upstate New York and Vermont awoke to winter-like weather Thursday morning, including the earliest a foot of snow has fallen in the higher elevations of the Green Mountain state in 14 years.
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Max Golembo, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Series creator Ryan Murphy explains to Variety that the real Lois was the one who awoke from her coma, and that everything in the season’s first six episodes was a dream.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated, and sleeping Virginians awoke to find their houses buried in muddy boulders or floating down what had previously been trickling streams.
—Justin McBrien / Made By History, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Max Golembo, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Series creator Ryan Murphy explains to Variety that the real Lois was the one who awoke from her coma, and that everything in the season’s first six episodes was a dream.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated, and sleeping Virginians awoke to find their houses buried in muddy boulders or floating down what had previously been trickling streams.
—Justin McBrien / Made By History, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Awoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awoke. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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