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were walking

  • past progressive
    of walk.
    walk
    verb (used without object)
    to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.

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PayPal fell 13%, to $53.66, after Bloomberg reported that financial-technology company Stripe and investment firm Advent International were walking away from an offer to buy the online-payment firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Britt and her partner were walking through the town when they narrowly avoided injury.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

"As we were walking, there were two groups of bikes coming down the pavement," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Soon, while we were walking our dog around the neighborhood, people would stop us and ask if we were new.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Bullet slowed a bit so that we were walking in tandem.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline