How to Use in the wake of in a Sentence

in the wake of

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  • Trying to carve out its own path in the wake of Jurassic Park was a tall order.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 July 2026
  • The bullpen is in decent shape, too, even in the wake of Saturday’s 15-3 loss.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Sebold’s case would turn out to be far more complex than that one, and its layers and effects far broader than what emerged in the wake of the exoneration.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Israel, founded in the wake of the Holocaust, denies the accusations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • The spokesperson also mentioned that the company was ramping up security in the wake of the Melrose Park shooting.
    — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Long daylight hours in the wake of last week’s solstice, coupled with the light of the waning Strawberry Moon in the south after midnight, may make aurora harder to see.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Gulf primary bond issuance came to an abrupt halt in the wake of the conflict, with corporate and sovereign bond yields jumping as geopolitical tensions escalated.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Campbell's family also announced his death in an update to a GoFundMe fundraiser created in the wake of the accident.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • When a 911 call was placed in the wake of the shooting, Barnett faced long wait times and was transferred between teams of arriving emergency responders, Moon said.
    — Ilana Arougheti june 30, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • One of the other key offseason storylines, especially in the wake of Sorsby’s absence, is the quarterback situation.
    — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Spink said the firm is also seeing rising demand for consultancy tied to localizing military manufacturing, which has acquired a new urgency in the wake of the Iran war.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • Crime rose sharply across the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic but has fallen in the years since, according to official data.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
  • Long daylight hours in the wake of last week’s solstice, coupled with the rising on Monday, June 29, of the full Strawberry Moon in the south, may make aurora harder to see.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Nearly 50,000 people remain unaccounted for in the wake of Venezuela's powerful earthquakes as the death toll continues to climb, officials said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • The euro sold off in February in the wake of a Financial Times report that Lagarde was considering making an early exit from the ECB.
    — Mike Sheen, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Her nonfiction includes The Gentrification of The Mind, a memoir of the homogenization of her city in the wake of the AIDS crisis.
    — Sarah Schulman, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
  • Mickelson's attorney issued a statement to PEOPLE on Monday, June 29, in the wake of the article.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • The internet service, powered by a constellation of thousands of satellites in orbit, has increasingly become an important tool in the wake of natural disasters when other communications infrastructure can become damaged.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Connecticut passed its ban in the wake of the 2012 mass shooting that killed 26 small children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Connecticut's ban was passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre in which 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Impeaching judges, sterilizing foreign visitors, dissolving the union – some prominent conservatives suggested extreme measures could be called for in the wake of a Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Contributor Steven Vargas reported on how surviving dance companies and artists are forging ahead in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and diminished funding.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • In the early 2000s, in the wake of the commercially successful but critically divisive Star Wars prequels, George Lucas shifted the franchise’s center of gravity away from features and toward animation.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
  • The Heat and Raptors' title odds have also soared in the wake of the Antetokounmpo and Leonard trades, while the Indiana Pacers could have sleeping-giant potential after the trade-deadline acquisition of Ivica Zubac.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But last week, the film was dropped by the studio in the wake of Amazon setting a major deal with Altman’s OpenAI for the AI company to use Amazon Web Services cloud functionality in a $50 billion deal.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 June 2026

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