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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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Attal was stone-faced, his arms folded across his chest as Macron spoke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She spoke negatively of that experience and called her co-star a bully in her memoir, released earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Max Verstappen spoke recently about how much he enjoyed the endurance racing at the Nurburgring.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Chowns, as well as former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, both spoke against the motion during the debate.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I sighed over my pizza and looked around the cafeteria, as noisy as ever with everyone gossiping, laughing, and generally being people who spoke to the other people at their tables.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

"In a sense you've got that central gathering point...like the castle in the Magic Kingdom...with different lands like spokes on a wheel, radiating out."

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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 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

Sometimes we attached playing cards to the forks with clothespins, and they flapped against the spokes when the wheels turned.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

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

In 14 years wearing the spoked “B,” Chara was named the league’s top defenseman in ’09 and five other times finished in the top five.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps; he kicks mud off the running board, cleans the windows and windshield.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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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