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awake to

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awake(n) someone to something
to make someone alert to something, such as a problem or a need. We need to awaken the voters to the need for more taxes. They awakened themselves to their callousness and began to treat other people better.
See also: awake

awake(n) to something

to wake up while experiencing something. Mary awoke to the smell of freshly brewed coffee. I love to awaken to music.
See also: awake


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DSL bequeaths hastens of 128Kbps wide awake to 9Mbps.
Companions now sleep's abandoned like a truce or, rather, it's like a break and enter since that precious state's been taken over, all of us awake to the victor's colours--a black flag hoisted somewhere--and with the birds I won't let the matter rest (no sign of any further trouble yet), not while I silently haunt the window, listening, listening, the city as still as a necropolis on this front line of a shared offence.
Those with sufficient shut eye proved twice as likely as those who stayed awake to figure out the third rule and solve the problem.
 
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