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awakens
  • present tense form of awaken (3rd person singular).

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“For a lot of investors, this avalanche of supply awakens dark memories of other ebullient markets,” said Giuseppe Sette, co-founder and president of Reflexivity, an AI solutions group focused on the investment industry.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"We used to think of the time before the genome awakens as a period of chaos," explains Noura Maziak, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

I think that my hope is that it wakes up and awakens in the people.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

In this revised version, a hydrogen bomb test awakens a giant fire-breathing mutant, which then rises out of the sea and marches into Tokyo.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin