WALKS OUT Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

walks out

verb

present tense third-person singular of walk out

as in exits

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 strikes

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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Recent Examples of walks out Lisa walks in with everyone’s orders and walks out with three giant bags of fast-food goodness. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 Raman allies engage in trash talk A woman walks out of her home carrying a full garbage bag, then starts venting about the high cost of trash pickup. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 When the vendor’s leadership walks out the door, the context evaporates with them. — Thanh Pham, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Morris, in a while gauzy dress and bare feet, walks out to a standing ovation. — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2026 Let’s back up a moment first, to set the stage before Collier walks out on it. — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026 The kind that walks out the door when somebody retires or leaves and is extraordinarily slow and expensive to rebuild, if it can be rebuilt at all. — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026 But when danger walks in courtesy of a very large and formidable alien, Kara walks out and throws hands at the dude. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 June 2026 The Ed Sullivan Theater, the crowd is full, the curtain pulls, people are cheering, and David Letterman walks out. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 June 2026

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Afternoon temperatures will tumble from the lower 80s back into the 40s and 50s overnight with breezy winds, as the rain slowly exits during the overnight hours.

— Cutter Martin, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Another customer who was standing in between the singer and employee at the register during the showdown appears to look around in disbelief at what just happened after the hitmaker exits.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of exits

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Before any cymbal leaves the factory, a shokunin strikes it and listens, comparing its sound against a pristine reference by ear.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
That the university is prepared to sacrifice a vital cultural resource in order to save a relatively small amount of money strikes me — and others as singularly short-sighted and ill-advised.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of strikes

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As part of its process, the powered gimbal moves the image around in the general direction the projector's already facing, stopping the movement several times in the process before continuing, and adjusting the image size several times as well.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Flight testing moves forward L3Harris has reached the second phase of the Army’s Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile program.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of moves

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While the live casting moment feels intense, the decisions that determine who walks, and who doesn’t, are the visible end of a process that starts long before any hopeful model enters the room.

— Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Adam is being self-loathing, but Lee, who was listening, walks away.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of walks

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Guests who don’t fancy a hike can take the cable car, which departs from the hotel and goes straight to the Alpe di Siusi viewpoint.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Patterson departs after missing two of his nine field goal attempts and one of his nine extra point attempts this season.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of departs

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The Archimedes screw gets a molecular makeover The researchers took inspiration from the Archimedes’ screw, an ancient device with a helical blade inside a cylinder that lifts water (or solids) when rotated.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The driver gets a 24-inch OLED screen, and there’s a smaller 7-inch infotainment screen in the centre.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of gets

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Bill Ackman peels off his suit jacket in the afternoon sunshine, and hands it to a chauffeur parked outside his office in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Octavia Spencer immediately peels off her jacket after entering the room and realizing there are no cameras present for our interview.

— Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of peels off

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