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verb

Definition of walk out

as in to exit

to leave a place often for another we simply walked out after waiting half an hour for someone to come and serve us

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as in to strike

to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands the salesclerks walked out upon learning of the second pay cut in six months

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noun

ˈwȯk-ˌau̇t

as in strike

a work stoppage by a body of workers intended to force an employer to meet their demands after four weeks of the walkout, management gave in

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Verb

Japan is also now the cheapest place to walk out of an Apple Store with a new iPhone. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 19 July 2026 Kids walk out with the players and stand by their side while each country’s national anthem is played. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026

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His classmates staged a walkout in protest of his detention and his case was covered in the local media, then picked up by the ACLU. — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 27 July 2026 The walkout disrupted care for patients in the epicenter of the country’s rapidly growing outbreak. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for walk out

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Cooper and Hadid sparked dating rumors in October 2023 when they were photographed leaving the West Village restaurant Via Carota and exiting via the same SUV, per the Daily Mail.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
Brent's price careened between $72 and $102 last month as worries rose and fell about when the war with Iran would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again to deliver crude to customers worldwide.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of exit

Verb

Emergency crews on the ground and in helicopters are scouring the Karakoram mountain range for the 10 climbers, including one American, who are believed to be have been on 8,047-meter-tall Broad Peak when an avalanche struck around midday Thursday.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles, killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others, the National Police press service said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of strike

Verb

The Tigers won for just the second time in six games to start a three-city West Coast swing and moved within 3 1/2 games of the final wild-card spot in the American League.

— CBS News, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
If the proposal moves forward, corporate demographic data related to employee race and gender would be less available to the public.

— Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of move

Verb

This was on full display last September when Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked side by side at a military parade in Beijing – a show of unity among authoritarians.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
Beth Sightler walked me around her working-class neighborhood in the Old North End.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Definition of walk

Verb

Her exit follows the resignations last week of acting Chief Financial Officer Steve Mahr and Deputy CFO Noor Shaikh in June — coming after CFO Jill Jaworski departed at the beginning of this year.

— Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Jimmy Coe, for example, said in an email to the larger airport that during his visit to Orlando in 2022, his taxi driver erroneously drove him to the Orlando airport instead of the Sanford airport where his Allegiant flight was departing.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of depart

Verb

Second, and perhaps more scientific (as far as these things go) is the fact that Sunfyre had not, in any way, begun to rot.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
And Eno and myself at that time were coming into the studio a little bit earlier than everybody in the morning just to get something going.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of go

Verb

When Marshall showed up, Reyes and Chamberlain both fired guns at Marshall as Marshall tried to get away, according to the affidavit.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
The idea is that the more of the filter feeders cling to the seawall, the cleaner the canal gets.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

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