- past tense form of speak.
spoke
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“Probably every venture fund that you see writing on X, I spoke to,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Thompson told BBC Sport they spoke about a number of things, from the season ahead to their families.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
MarketWatch spoke to homeowners, remodeling experts, real-estate agents and interior designers to find out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
From the front steps, he spoke about what this house had meant to him and his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sela beaded and spoke Kanyen’kéha well enough to teach.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
The ride is typically in July, but a permitting impasse with the national park wedged a wrench in the spokes of this summer’s event.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
All major decisions were collective occasions, in which advisers, like spokes on a wheel, made contributions, usually in written form.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
“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 Laing, David
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