From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwaking hours/life/day etcwaking hours/life/day etc writtenCONSCIOUSall the time when you are awake His face haunted her every waking moment! → waking
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waking hours/life/day etc• He inhales desert lore and data all his waking hours.• Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.• Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.• The documentation that he signed said, observe this resident one on one during waking hours.• She still wanted to look as she did in waking life, but there were improvements she could make.• Every second of his waking hours, he was watched.• Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it.• We were young and our waking hours were given to games. 