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  • past tense form of speak.
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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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With a thick beard and wearing a grey sweatshirt and trousers, he spoke only to confirm his address in Rotherham and his date of birth.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Addressing a Yeni party meeting in parliament on Tuesday, Ozel spoke of the campaign of pressure, threats and blackmail faced by Izmir's elected officials.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Lewis dropped his call for an October increase after Williams and Jefferson spoke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rams coach Sean McVay said he spoke with his assistants after online videos appeared to show coaches taunting Eagles fans and making obscene gestures from a stadium booth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Other spirits gave up raps altogether; instead, their mediums spoke aloud in spirit languages.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

When England did safely gather, Australia were able to shove a spanner in the spokes of their usually powerful driving maul.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

“He wants to put a crowbar in the spokes of our wheels within a nanosecond,” Newsom said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

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

I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

I was wrapped in an old blanket, stiff and spoked with hay.

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

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

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

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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