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  • past tense form of speak.
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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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When I spoke with him last Thursday, the veteran journalist repeated his belief in the press’ witnessing role, unshaken by the massive changes occurring in the news industry.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

There has been speculation this week that Vučiċ spoke to Orbán twice on Sunday night to ask his advice - once before he conceded, and again at 23:15.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

People I spoke with lamented a childhood filled with academic stress: cram school tutoring, studying well into the night and China’s make-or-break gaokao university entrance examination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Cafe, where she spoke with alumnae of the Divine Nine, a group of historically Black fraternities and sororities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

If I spoke out loud I don’t think I could keep the shake out of my voice.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

She punched out a hole in the traditional berliner and yes, it cooked more evenly, but notably, young Hanson could store them on the helm spokes.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

However, Wales will relish the chance to stick a spanner in the spokes and puncture such title pretensions.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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

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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