- past participle of wake.
woken
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Fed officials have now woken up to the inflationary part of the AI story.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
For more than four decades, Yuk Wong has woken up every day at 4 a.m. and cooked bacon from before the sun rises until closing time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Called “Situational Awareness,” the essay proclaimed that AI would soon become more powerful than humans and that most of the world hadn’t woken up to this reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Belgian's comments came as Jonas Vingegaard was woken at 02:00 and race leader Tadej Pogacar at 05:00 local time for tests before Sunday's stage - in which the Dane crashed and broke his collarbone.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“I had no idea we were leaving. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have left. I would have woken you.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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