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  • past tense form of speak.
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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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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

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

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

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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