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Since the Australian show — now in its third season — reached American audiences on Disney+ in early 2020, parents have waked in the night with the melodica-driven theme song on hyperloop in their heads.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

It also leaves the uncanny sense that the figure has waked from a long sleep and is keenly aware that you are observing its first flickering of consciousness.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

When he had more time to linger on the what-ifs, whether things would have been different had he just waked up earlier that Saturday and visited her.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2022

Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, who lives in a palace not far from the train station, said the hordes had rudely waked him that morning.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2020

She got up at four o’clock in the morning and waked everybody in the family.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers