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Discover LudwigThe word "talked" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is the past tense of the verb "talk" and can be used in a variety of contexts. Here are some examples: - She talked to her boss about a possible promotion. - The children talked excitedly about their plans for the weekend. - The students talked quietly during the exam. - After months of therapy, I finally talked about my issues with my therapist. - The politicians talked for hours before reaching a compromise. In general, "talked" can be used to describe any conversation or communication that has already taken place.
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talked
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Past of talk
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Sandi Toksvig, who launched WEP last month, said her decision to leave the News Quiz for politics was because: "It's very interesting that most of the mainstream parties seem to treat women's issues as if we were a minority group rather than in fact what we are, which is the majority of the country … you get childcare talked about as if it was only a woman's issue".
Dutton said he had talked to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with the biotechnology and vaccine company CSL "about work that we might be able to partner in and we'll have something further to say about that in due course".
The vanguard for this push is embodied by Pumphouse Point – a much talked about converted hydro facility on Lake St Clair that is catering to wilderness visitors who don't want to shiver in a tent amid the region's tempestuous weather.
Eyre said he had "talked at length" with Norris – advising him that at times he would need to be stoical and that the most enjoyable part of the job was "taking pleasure in others' successes".
They all talked with awed tones, as if they have been through an extreme experience.
A couple of days ago, I spoke to Nicola Heaney, the great-niece of Mortensen, who talked with restrained dignity about the past week and how distressing his widow, Jean, who died a couple of years ago, would have found it.
I talked to people on both sides of this wave of change, as a new, fully Conservative government takes shape.
A 45-year-old senior lecturer at Chelsea college of art and design, who did not wish to be named, said: "There was a free teach-in at 5 o'clock and various speakers came and talked about the consequences of the cuts on the arts and education.
They met up, talked it through and basically what was needed was that my mother had at least £40,000 in equity in her home to be able to act as a guarantor, and that I had to complete a full year at university.
"In the past few years, Mr Rafsanjani has always talked about a letter he wrote in 1988 to Imam [Ruhollah] Khomeini [supreme leader until his death in 1989] in which he beseeched the founder of the Islamic Revolution to solve the problem of Iran's relations with the US during his lifetime, arguing that no one else would be able to do so after his death.
"We talked about what I wanted from the mentoring and then she invited me down to Maida Vale to listen to her latest radio play being recorded.
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