: passed in a conscious or alert state
every waking hour
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Students spend more waking hours a day at school than at home in the July-May.
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Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends.
—Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
When nightmare scenarios move to the waking world, stark fictions and knotty personal histories offer guidance less in the factual specifics than in their emotional terrain.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
Except now, without practices and position meetings and all the usual minutiae consuming every waking moment of a coach’s day, Williams has never had so much time.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
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Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends.
—Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
When nightmare scenarios move to the waking world, stark fictions and knotty personal histories offer guidance less in the factual specifics than in their emotional terrain.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
Except now, without practices and position meetings and all the usual minutiae consuming every waking moment of a coach’s day, Williams has never had so much time.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
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“Waking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waking. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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