talk
verb (used without object)
to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking.
were talking
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past progressiveof talk.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The president and lawmakers were talking about AI policy, news organizations had multiple headlines a day and fears about a potential AI-driven apocalypse had taken hold across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Even before ChatGPT heralded the beginning of the AI boom, Chinese policy documents were "talking about the idea that computing power is correlated with national power", said Stokols.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It's so exciting, we were talking about it yesterday about how we'd love to get a gold," Donnelly said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Only last year, many Fed officials were talking about improvements in productivity tied to AI that could lower inflation in the long run.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
It seemed that Papa and I never could hold a man-to-man conversation without Mama getting all worked up; especially, if we were talking about my going down to the river bottoms.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
