am researching
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present progressiveof research (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
researchnoundiligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc..
Example Sentences
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For the first two years of my PhD, in which I am researching groundwater management, I sloppily made them only to appease him.
From Nature ● Oct. 9, 2018
I am researching at ways of doing the same.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2018
Here’s a question most anyone who learns I am researching confidence artists asks me: Are con artists clinical psychopaths—or are they just slightly more devious versions of our more conniving selves?
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2016
I’ve been reading a lot about Noelle Stevenson, a 23-year-old indie comics writer and illustrator, so here I am researching some of her projects.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2015
“I feel sometimes that I am researching a cold-war novel, rather than urban development and finance,” said Brendan Williams, an economist at University College Dublin who has been tracking the fallout from Ireland’s property bust.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2012