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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

“Julian Bond was typing while I handed him the pages,” she said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

“Julian Bond was typing while I handed him the pages,” Pope said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

I was typing so fast, I barely saw what I was writing.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas