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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").
According to Ambassador Milam, the bombings were a "wake-up call," and he soon found himself spending 45 to 50 percent of his time working the Taliban- Bin Ladin portfolio.
That finding became the wake-up call for me and hopefully it will be the wake-up call for others in a community that cares about access to justice for the poor."
"It's a wake-up call," said Dr. Smith of the results.
The LAT refers to the development as "a wake-up call to tyrants around the world."