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also waked (up)
as in zipped (up)
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Spencer’s teenage son was awakened in the night in 1992 to find his father beating his mother in the head with a brick, according to court documents.
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Neighbor Daleon Walker says he was awakened by the sound of gunfire.
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After losing consciousness in the lightning strike, the man awoke and called the Oregon Golf Club pro shop on Pete's Mountain Road, which then called 911.
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Five years ago, Florida’s millions of condo dwellers awoke to a new reality.
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Sometimes the antibodies can be stirred to action by exercise, alcohol, or a combination of the two.
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Crafted with Grey Goose vodka and Carpano Dry Vermouth, the cocktail is prepared to each guest’s preference—whether dry, dirty, extra dirty, shaken or stirred—from the restaurant’s signature martini cart.
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After Israel struck a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut on Sunday, Israelis went to bed expecting to be roused by incoming missiles from Iran.
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This roused the Court-Philippe-Chatrier crowd, and in the second set Andreeva fully unraveled, smacking another ball to the rafters and asking people in her box to leave.
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But women retain responsive desire—which comes from being stimulated, or from stimulating themselves.
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Long-term state investment in infrastructure has stimulated enterprise.
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As virality goes, this is not a big number, but the passion that the account has aroused dwarfs its reach.
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Overview The emergence of teleSUR has aroused significant interest due to its uniqueness of being the first regional television channel purely financed by more than three Latin American states.
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Under this transit, conversations are animated and creative, and one exciting possibility could lead to another.
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Again isn’t a covers album so much as a reimagining of the sonic philosophy that animated one of the band’s heaviest and most adventurous periods.
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Though only half the length of their 2025 breakthrough debut, the New York quartet’s second album is dense with ideas and enlivened by purpose.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong then enlivened the dugout in the ninth with a nifty headfirst slide and swim move to avoid the tag as the Pirates played the infield in.
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“Woke (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woke%20%28up%29. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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