Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, Martin Gruenberg, the chair of the F.D.I.C., will testify that regulators are awakening to the potentially cataclysmic consequences that the failures of midsize lenders like SVB and Signature Bank can cause.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Ukrainians are awakening with the awareness that, however, this ends up, they are now living in a different country.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2022

The old gods are awakening, and the pollsters are sharpening their needles.

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2020

After protracted slumber in Earth’s icy fringes, bacteria, moss and nematodes are awakening in a new geologic epoch.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2019

The workers of the world are awakening and bestirring themselves as never before.

From The Red Conspiracy by Mereto, Joseph J.