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  • past tense form of speak.
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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, spoke about the accomplishment as though it were fact, congratulating OpenAI and posting that “AGI has arrived.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

AFP spoke to people in different countries about their fears and hopes for the AI future, as leading US labs call for a coordinated slowdown of their cutting-edge work on the technology.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

We spoke with Silver ahead of his Wednesday event hosted by Book Soup at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

When the White Sox first spoke with him about a managerial vacancy a couple of years earlier, they had assigned him a written test.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

I spoke once about my feelings to Mama.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

"In a sense you've got that central gathering point...like the castle in the Magic Kingdom...with different lands like spokes on a wheel, radiating out."

From BBC Apr. 12, 2025

Which it achieves by connecting to us like the spokes of a wheel.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2025

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

So he wedged the mangoes into the spokes of his bicycle wheels.

From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

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

“It’s hard to put into words what it means to wear the spoked ‘B,’” he wrote.

From Seattle Times Jul. 14, 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

She opened her eyes and found herself face-to-face with the tall spoked wheel of a luxurious town coach, which had come to a sudden stop not three feet from where she lay.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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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