Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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If we are drumming, it is very loud and any number of groups can do it at the same time.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2022
As blockbuster films return to the big screen, studios are drumming up more buzz by creating personalized, targeted experiences on social media sites where younger consumers spend more of their time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
Administration officials are consulting experts and advisers at home while delegates are drumming up support abroad ahead of a major policy speech Obama will give Wednesday night.
From US News ● Sep. 9, 2014
With the globalization of women’s issues, world organizations are drumming up the support of activists the world over, of marquee names and celebrities.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013
We stand night and day with our faces to the enemy, and they draw around kneading-troughs full of hashed meat and cabbage with millet, and are drumming on them with spoons,—that is their labor.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
