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  • plural of spoon.
  • present tense form of spoon (3rd person singular).
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spoons



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His custom-built cutlery bins, meanwhile, are exactly proportional to the length of his spoons and knives.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

As the sun sank, neighbors began banging spoons on metal pots from inside their homes, the subtle but unmistakable clank of government protests.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2026

Ivorian schoolchildren crowd around masks, finely carved turtles, and ceremonial spoons once admired by visitors of Zurich's Rietberg Museum.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon Jan. 5, 2026

Then Crean called out “Hoosh!” and the men gathered around the pot with their spoons.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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