- past tense form of speak.
spoke
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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, spoke about the accomplishment as though it were fact, congratulating OpenAI and posting that “AGI has arrived.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
AFP spoke to people in different countries about their fears and hopes for the AI future, as leading US labs call for a coordinated slowdown of their cutting-edge work on the technology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
We spoke with Silver ahead of his Wednesday event hosted by Book Soup at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
When the White Sox first spoke with him about a managerial vacancy a couple of years earlier, they had assigned him a written test.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
I spoke once about my feelings to Mama.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Since World War II the alliance had worked like a wheel: The U.S. as the indispensable hub and the rest as spokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"In a sense you've got that central gathering point...like the castle in the Magic Kingdom...with different lands like spokes on a wheel, radiating out."
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
Which it achieves by connecting to us like the spokes of a wheel.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
Alabama stuck a stick in the spokes of the juggernaut by pulling Clingan away from the basket and burying 3-pointers.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
So he wedged the mangoes into the spokes of his bicycle wheels.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
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So, on Tuesday’s episode oof What Next, I spoked to Jeff Goodell about what we’re going to do about it.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023
By 4000 years ago, the new horse dominated a region from central Anatolia to central Russia, where people of the Sintashta culture buried horses with the earliest spoked wheels and chariots in mounds called kurgans.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2021
“It’s hard to put into words what it means to wear the spoked ‘B,’” he wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
I also spoked with NBA commissioner Adam Silver andasked him if he would ever punish a player for speaking out on something that Silver personally disagrees with.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2021
She opened her eyes and found herself face-to-face with the tall spoked wheel of a luxurious town coach, which had come to a sudden stop not three feet from where she lay.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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In "Miniature," flowers are magnified to astronomical proportions: One dandelion is yellow, is a solar flame spoking from a green nether rim; the other gray, a dainty crumb-cake of a moon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Souilly was barely a hamlet surrounded by farmland, a cluster of small cottages spoking out like a wheel from a modest stone town hall.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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A large piece of graphed paper containing a design for an outdoor space: a fountain in the middle and pebble pathways spoking out from it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Your Lordschip knawis weall the man: he hes spoking with your Lordschip: I thought yow content with him.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
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