Thesaurus results for WALKED

walked

verb

past tense of walk

as in stepped

to go on foot I walked slowly to school

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as in struck

to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands workers threatened to walk unless management agreed to shoulder more of the cost of health insurance

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Recent Examples of walked Later in the inning, Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia walked in the tying run (credited to starter Tyler Glasnow for having initially loaded the bases). — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 Finklea and his friend Ira Williams, 70, were shot to death when someone walked up to Finklea’s car along Northwest 30th Avenue and fired more than a dozen shots. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 Ella Bleu Travolta, John’s daughter, walked the Miu Miu show, and Apple Martin, offspring of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, debuted on the runway for Chloé after fronting one of its campaigns. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 As seen on a surveillance video, the man walked up to the victim, grabbed him, and stabbed him multiple times before fleeing from the scene. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Fan Bingbing and Charlotte Gainsbourg also walked the opening night carpet, along with Alfonso Cuarón, making his first official trip to Korea. — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Snell walked Andrew Vaughn to open the seventh before Jake Bauers won an 11-pitch battle with a go-ahead, two-run missile. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The canal sparkled gray-green in the sunlight and on the opposite bank, people walked their dogs and relaxed on benches along 365’s esplanade. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026 Ditka walked away with a record of 106 wins as the Bears coach, the second-most in the franchise's history. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

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Ines De Ramon stepped onto the London red carpet in a sheer lace gown on Friday night accompanied by boyfriend Brad Pitt.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026
Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, gave up his role as trade envoy in 2011 and stepped away from all royal duties in 2019 because of concerns about his relationship with Epstein.

— Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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Monday's attack came a day after a Russian drone struck the village of Pisochyn in the Kharkiv district, killing three people and injuring nine others, including children, according to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
For Patil, Selvi’s habit of putting her own plans on hold struck close to home.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of struck

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Five burros were killed and a driver was injured when a herd wandered onto the 215 Freeway in 2020.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
At one point, McLoughlin even snubbed Sylvester Stallone, another Kennedy Center Honoree who had wandered into the bar.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of wandered

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Several opposition lawmakers and thousands of supporters marched through the capital and submitted a petition to the chief justice alleging irregularities in the nationwide revision of voter lists.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Her shoes were very similar in style to her mother’s, and the pair looked on as Princess Leonor marched in the parade in formal military attire to celebrate completing three years of training.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026