prosecute
are prosecuting
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present progressiveof prosecute.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now, to the dismay of rights groups, the courts are prosecuting young protesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2025
“It’s pretty evident by the way they are prosecuting the investigation that they are not comfortable” with the plaintiffs' lawyer ban, he said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
Zoe Bedell for the Eastern District of Virginia are prosecuting the case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
“We obviously are prosecuting the shooter to the fullest extent. … There are other individuals who should be held accountable.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
It is one of the considerations which enjoin on Courts and Governments the duty of seeing that, when people are prosecuting civil war, they shall enjoy the humanities of war.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
