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Example sentences for: wake-up

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These include: "wake-up call" (46); "above my pay grade" (41); "paralysis by analysis" (2); "new facts on the ground" (1); and "mano a mano " (1), which, as reader Jay Brida pointed out, is always misused (it's Spanish not for "man to man," but "hand to hand").
The LAT refers to the development as "a wake-up call to tyrants around the world."
In other cases, incidents at other organizations had served as a "wake-up call."
However, the federal government, which has often acted as if federal employees were costs to be cut rather than assets to be valued, has only recently received its wake-up call.
He told investigators "he wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews."