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was typing

  • past progressive
    of type.
    type
    noun
    a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category.

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As I was typing this, she started laughing and said “hey, make sure you put the word shagadelic” in there……..

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Yeah, I was typing through that part so it didn’t bother me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

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

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

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers