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[spur] / spɜr /




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Spur built a quick-test page that looks at your home network’s IP address—the internet’s version of a phone number.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It said the crashes happened on the southbound carriageway of the A130, between the Rayleigh Spur and Sadlers Farm roundabouts.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

The fossil is described on January 11 in the journal Current Biology along with several other specimens that were collected from the Richards Spur limestone cave system in Oklahoma.

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2024

And the limestone caves of Richards Spur in Oklahoma contain some of the world’s most diverse and well-preserved fossils from the Paleozoic.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 2024

I had read many Westerns, of course, doing research, and had even written several, had indeed won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America three times for Western novels.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen




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