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spoke

[spohk] / spoʊk /




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Afterward, he spoke about his plans for the two-week international break.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Van Houten defended his initial decision not to pursue charges in November 2024, when the accuser, identified as Jane Doe, first spoke to Cornell University police.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Pulido about what Democrats misunderstand about South Texas and whether he’s singing the right tune for Congress.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Speaking to RTE prior to kick-off, Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson spoke about the impact the intense scrutiny on the games have had on him and his squad.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

As he spoke, the distant colored lights began glowing in turn.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

She punched out a hole in the traditional berliner and yes, it cooked more evenly, but notably, young Hanson could store them on the helm spokes.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

Itoje was a menace around the breakdown, turning over ball and putting a spanner in Scotland's attacking spokes as the referee let play flow.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025

Like spokes on a wheel, rows and rows of wooden shelves surround me.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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 David Laing




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