WALKED OUT Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

walked out

verb

past tense of walk out

as in exited

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 struck

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 walked out Some months later, the organization discovers how much judgment and context walked out with him, and the person themselves discovers that nobody prepared them for a life without the work. — Vikas Arora, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 His speech was met with cheers from the crowd while others reportedly walked out during his performance. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 On May 30, 2025, Robinson walked out of her building for the last time. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The Most Nostalgia-Inducing In 2023, fans were shocked to see all five members of *NSYNC, which had disbanded nearly 20 years earlier, walked out together to present best pop video. — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026 Cuban diplomats present at the assembly then walked out of the room. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026 Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding walked out of his press conference to a standing ovation from the donors who had filed into the room after the Rebels had spoiled Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Before Thursday night's decision, students at Lincoln Way East walked out in support of Homewood-Flossmoor students. — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 No one, though, ever walked out on him mid-date like the woman in the movie. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

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During that time the female lead Rosa Salazar exited, by all accounts a mutual decision, and Fumero came on board.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Éric Vallat, a former cognac executive who joined Lacoste as its chief executive officer last year, has exited the brand.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of exited

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As a sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene, a second vehicle struck the Thaxton, according to the post.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
Davidson struck me as being fearful, clinging to a handful of ugly stories about trans people as a sign of things to come in women-only spaces.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of struck

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This week, SpaceX moved one step closer to its goal of building its direct-to-device Starlink Mobile service after the FCC approved the aerospace company’s application to deploy and operate 15,000 next-generation Starlink satellites.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
On the day Erica and Peter moved into 150 Charles, their attorney claims, they were greeted with a cluttered and dirty space that didn’t square with the $26,000-a-month rent.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026

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The choice of chartreuse — a borderline putrid shade of it, no less — walked an appropriate tightrope between glamorous and grotesque.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
The lefty struck out three and walked four over two scoreless innings in his major-league debut, earning the win and aiding the Sox in a 5-3 victory.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of walked

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Eisner, Diller’s second in command, departed for Disney when he didn’t get promoted, and he was soon followed out the door by another rising young executive, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Bailey departed Burberry in 2018 and was succeeded as chief creative officer by Riccardo Tisci, formerly the creative director at Givenchy (Marco Gobbetti took over Bailey’s CEO role in 2017).

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of departed

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If another worker with a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas PPO plan got the same drug at the same Houston Methodist hospital, an employer could be paying almost six times as much, or nearly $4,400 for a vial.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
A little less than 18 months ago, Ukraine carried out a sneak drone attack in which forces smuggled them into Russian territory and waited until the truck that was unknowingly carrying them got close to Russian bases.

— Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026

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