How to Use woke in a Sentence
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The latest brouhaha over woke culture involves the children’s and young adult books of Roald Dahl.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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But what if said employer has contracted the woke mind virus?
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
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In fact, looking back on those early days, Superman was very woke.
—Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
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Culture war issues, like an anti-woke agenda, are likely to be at the forefront.
—Ben Koltun, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
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The department’s role in advancing a woke agenda can be passive as well as active.
—Michael B. Mukasey, National Review, 9 May 2023
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Nevertheless, so clever is FastHorse’s setup, and so thorough her twisting of the knife of woke logic, that Alicia, if anyone, is our hero.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat's traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
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This latest Sanders misstep only shows that the needs of Latinos can never be reduced to a debate over a label, or a plank of a contrived anti-woke agenda.
—Ed Morales, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
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Antonioni lesson learned, Davies transcends the shoe-gazing self-pity shown by so many of the world’s woke filmmakers who suffer sick Eros and sick Morality.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
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Kendi’s stark provocation that one is either a racist or an anti-racist epitomized the morality play that the right has come to describe as the essence of woke politics.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
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His comments were an implicit rebuke of the company’s previous overlords who, in his opinion, had caved to the woke mob and Democratic elites.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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However, anti-woke activists do take grave issue with some of Nike’s spokespeople.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
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Find out how to incite moral panic over otherwise inconsequential morsels of pop culture, such as which movie characters are Black and which brands are too woke.
—Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2023
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The New Right coalesced as part of a backlash against the woke excesses of the recent past—but railing against wokeness is always faintly embarrassing.
—Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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Prince Charles, who has had a famously rocky reputation, is portrayed by one of the world’s most handsome actors as a decisive, proto-woke guy who just happens to be married to the wrong woman.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2022
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Republicans had called that a woke policy that hurts retirees' pockets.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
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Chris Nicholson, a friend in the Ph.D. program, said progressive peers branded Fishback a prejudiced, anti-woke crusader.
—C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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Republicans must be careful lest their anti-woke messaging trigger the same response.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Feb. 2023
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Rather than outline an economic plan addressing the paramount concern of the American people, Sanders described her anti-woke agenda.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Feb. 2023
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The causality works differently from what the woke adherents of diversity think.
—WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
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The anti-woke crusader and entrepreneur is padding his pockets with cash as his presidential campaign gets going.
—John Hyatt, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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In between are the companies themselves, simultaneously accused of being too woke and not progressive enough.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2023
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This understanding of the word, a broad awareness of societal injustices, continued to be the complete understanding of ‘woke’ well after these brief publications.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Milk Fed captures the specific, and truly bleak, loneliness of trying to break out in the Los Angeles stand-up-comedy scene while working for a faux-woke talent manager and concealing an eating disorder.
—Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2022
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Fink and his woke Wall Street buddies are using hardworking American’s money and far left activists to compel companies into submission and force behaviors on consumers.
—Kyle Morris, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2023
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The Republican Party’s top priority should be to fill this void with an inspiring national identity that dilutes the woke agenda to irrelevance.
—Vivek Ramaswamy, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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With recruitment rates to the U.S. military falling, attention is turning to the rise of woke politics, which is undermining public confidence in America's military leaders.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
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With recruitment rates to the U.S. military falling, attention is turning to the rise of woke politics, which is undermining public confidence in America's military leaders.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
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Private and online venues will also fill a national need to teach Western civilization and humanities courses by non-woke faculty who do not institutionalize bias.
—Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2022
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The study’s authors pointed to rising spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs as an example of other rising costs associated with a woke corporate stance.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
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