spoke
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“The clips really spoke for themselves,” Tarin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Few voters who spoke to The Times in this swing district were decided on which party to support in November — or whether to vote at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
That person, whoever it was, spoke for a lot of us at the time.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Her team was monitoring and supporting 31 rough sleepers when she spoke to BBC Politics East.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
I’m sure he glanced at Hannie when he spoke.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
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
The decision to close the three Austin, San Antonio and Miami spokes will not impact these larger facilties or any other cross-docking locations, Kroger’s spokesperson said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Jaunty turned the helm three spokes to the port side, going hand over hand on the wheel.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
It was a house that we knew, having admired the large white wheelbarrow tilted down on spoked wheels and planted with seasonal flowers.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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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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