- past tense form of speak.
spoke
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Those who spoke three languages had brains that appeared about seven years younger.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The senior US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Canada had sought additional concessions that the United States was unable to provide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
People who spoke more languages tended to have younger-looking brains, and the effect also appeared stronger among those who learned another language earlier and became more proficient.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Doctors I spoke with say that women, their partners and family members should seek out care immediately if they suspect something is off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
When she did, she spoke in a whisper so quiet I was sure I’d heard her wrong.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
Which it achieves by connecting to us like the spokes of a wheel.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
Itoje was a menace around the breakdown, turning over ball and putting a spanner in Scotland's attacking spokes as the referee let play flow.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
When I caught up to him again at Sepulveda, I told him his back wheel needed new spokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
But Frederick says nothing more, and both boys lie motionless a long time, watching the blue spokes of moonlight rotate through the room.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
On a recent episode of What Next, I spoked with McNeill about whether going inside the Bat Lands could help prevent the next outbreak.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
First came the DOM2 horse, followed by the spoked wheel and chariots.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 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
In 14 years wearing the spoked “B,” Chara was named the league’s top defenseman in ’09 and five other times finished in the top five.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps; he kicks mud off the running board, cleans the windows and windshield.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
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
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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