spoke
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When I spoke to him later, I loved how different the person was on the phone versus the person I met in the room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
On Sunday, Zelensky said he spoke with top military commanders including Maj.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Speaking at Trump Tower during a reception on Friday, the president also spoke about the moment he asked Fifa to review USA striker Folarin Balogun's one-match suspension.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
But inflation data released after Waller spoke was cooler than expected, and markets have settled into a view that July is too soon for a hike.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
She spoke quietly, always, but he never missed a word she said.
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
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
Which it achieves by connecting to us like the spokes of a wheel.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
When I caught up to him again at Sepulveda, I told him his back wheel needed new spokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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
I lean against one of the large spoked wheels and pass the time alternately picking slivers from beneath my nails and chewing long pieces of grass.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
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
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
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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