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was typing

  • past progressive of type.

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Vivien was typing them out from a cupboard in the house where she was hiding.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2023

It was actually transcriptions of intelligence documents that he was typing up by hand, and then kind of annotating and adding his own little explanations and commentary to it.

From Slate Apr. 14, 2023

The only thing I was capable of doing was typing, so I did years and years of temp work, data entry, fill-in secretarial work, that kind of stuff.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2023

“I was typing in the chat like crazy that I didn’t have the instrument,” she said.

From Seattle Times Jun. 18, 2022

Jamal was typing up a report on Brew and noticed it was his birthday.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers