Spokane
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Fifteen state and local pension funds from Jacksonville, Fla., to Spokane, Wash, invested in a $7 billion Blue Owl digital-infrastructure fund that closed last year, the second-biggest ever raised, according to PitchBook.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
“That relationship is not exactly instilling trust at the moment,” Seger told the Spokesman Review, a local Spokane news outlet.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
I told her and Spokane didn’t exactly make her click her heels, because her life is about being plugged into big cities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
It’s a 90-minute drive to Spokane, or a commuter flight to Seattle, to go anywhere by the airlines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
As he lay ill with scarlet fever in the attic of a woman he did not really know, the last remnants of his former world were dissolving in Spokane.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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