- past tense form of speak.
spoke
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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