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were chatting
  • past progressive of chat.

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"I managed to find a witness who said they were chatting away - there were no wheelchairs, no crutches, and John was able to communicate," Gibson said.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Dmitriev and Witkoff meanwhile were chatting regularly by phone about increasingly ambitious proposals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

They were chatting with each other on the Signal app as they chowed down on steaks at the Palm while Hegseth white-knuckled it through everyone else at his table quaffing their Martinis and Negronis.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

The technology also gives robots a broad understanding of the English language, letting people chat with them as if they were chatting with ChatGPT.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

Dari seemed too friendly—we’d never actually spoken before, but here we were, chatting away while he stood there in a potato.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller