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was replying

  • past progressive of reply.

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The support team was replying to some accounts, offering a link to Hulu’s support page — which ended up going down too.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2024

Well, importantly, I would get a notification every time anyone replied to the hell thread, which at some point was some significant percentage of the entire app was replying to one thread.

From New York Times May 5, 2023

When one Twitter user noted that Mr. Joyce was replying to an anonymous user with a pink teddy bear in January, Mr. Joyce took the chance to deploy his it-takes-all-kinds mantra.

From Washington Times Feb. 3, 2023

In the Commons, Steve Barclay was replying to Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who asked why he had not mentioned striking nurses and paramedics in his ministerial statement on NHS winter pressures,

From BBC Jan. 9, 2023

Of course, she was replying to my question about why we turned the clocks back in the fall.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen