spoke
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At 08:30, Mingma G spoke to Kili Pemba Sherpa - better known as Kilu - a childhood friend and expert climber in Nims's group.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bharbi Hazarika spoke to Meghan about the sudden trial twist and what it means for teenagers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The article says only that it’s “based on interviews with more than a half-dozen current and former officials,” including anonymous “people who spoke to” Vance and “officials with direct knowledge.”
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Salon spoke to a handful of Gen Z-ers about why many of them aren’t interested in going to Burning Man.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
But when he first spoke that name to me, in my final examination to become a Hello Girl, he spoke it in French.
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
But the fact remains that they are dedicated wearers and spokes folks for that brand — and not Nike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
However, Wales will relish the chance to stick a spanner in the spokes and puncture such title pretensions.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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
I kept thinking of Salim, seeing his face with his lips turned up, fading in and out of the spokes of the London Eye.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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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
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
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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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