waking hours
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The logic: fewer responsibilities mean more waking hours for working.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
All of it translates the outsized role corporations can impose on our waking hours into sinister folly while asking us to ponder whether half a life is worth living regardless of the perks.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
Yet she could not seem to stay awake, often drifting off without even realising it and waking hours later with no memory of having gone to bed.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024
The new album’s title may hint at sunshine and waking hours, but make no mistake, Yoakam is a night owl, a man for whom work begins around dusk and often stretches into dawn.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
If they weren’t at each other this way, all their waking hours, they wouldn't be anything like human, after all.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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