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 Yet another wild pitch moved Crews to second, and then CJ Abrams walked. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 Sep. 2026 Ryan Vilade and Diaz walked and as the Yankees mishandled a throw in attempting a double play on Liam Hicks’ grounder, Vilade made a heads-up dash for home. — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 Smith infamously walked up to Oscars host Chris Rock during the live broadcast of the 2022 event and slapped him across the face after Rock made an unscripted joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026 Holmes has walked 15 batters in his last 19 2/3 innings spanning four starts. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 Elsewhere, Senate nominees have walked a careful line on tariffs. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 The actor walked the red carpet with the royal couple on September 22. — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026 Illustration by Patricia Bolaños In sleepy South Slope, a local son in search of a beer bar walked past a familiar, long-shuttered laundromat. — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026 Early investigation details indicate the crash happened as a pedestrian walked in the northbound lanes of I-435. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

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The group then stepped away from everyday demands for an extended off-site conversation.

— Angela Cusack, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
When the agent stepped away, Garton saw bloodstains in the shape of handprints on the man’s shirt.

— Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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Four people, including two teenage girls, were hurt when a Russian drone struck a residential area in northern Ukraine's Chernihiv region on Sunday evening, said Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional military administration.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Flash floods struck at least 10 provinces in Cambodia, affecting 44,889 families and forcing nearly 4,000 people to evacuate, according to disaster management officials.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of struck

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The end result, Dallas Wilson wandered into the end zone, and the lead was 17.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026
Inside, a photo call sat to one side while the crowd wandered among jewelry vitrines with Champagne, white Negronis and white cosmos in hand, taking in the diamonds.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026