But make no mistake: The inability to define "woke" is a feature, not a bug. "Woke" is very much meant to be a word that cannot be pinned to a definition.

However you define “woke,” simply using the word unironically, in its current context, says a lot. Editorial Standards Reprints & Permissions.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., didn’t define woke any more clearly March 2 during the Conservative Political Action Conference.

T he word “woke” has become polarizing. Project 2025, the mandate for conservative leadership, mentioned it thirty-five times ...

Liberals claim that conservatives have turned the term woke into a catch-all bogeyman they can’t even define. The term “woke” was originally used in black communities in the 1940s, ’50s ...

What does woke mean? "Woke," as we traditionally used it in days of yore, usually referred to someone waking up from sleep. But in the last 10 years or so, woke has become a term used to raise ...

“Woke” policies can be complex to discuss -- and are almost invariably dangerous to implement -- but they aren’t at all hard to define. We should keep calling them out, using the proper word.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary "woke" is defined as: "Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. "Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice." ...

"This piece alleges up front that few Republicans can define ’woke’ social justice activism and proceeds to quote a broad array of Republicans offering very specific examples of the phenomenon ...

A Viral Moment on the Definition of “Woke” Reveals All You Need to Know About the Right’s Attacks Conservative author Bethany Mandel’s struggle to define the word “woke” spoke volumes.