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are smoking

  • present progressive of smoke.

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Read: ‘Story’ stocks are smoking hot in 2025.

From MarketWatch Nov. 4, 2025

Fewer people in the UK are smoking than ever before - around 13%.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2024

Yet down in the red zone, the BBQs are smoking, the music is pumping, and the convoy rolls on, for now.

From Slate Feb. 17, 2022

Shares of Weber are smoking in their market debut Thursday as the grilling company gets off to a hot start with investors.

From Seattle Times Aug. 5, 2021

"Not with the brand of cigars you are smoking; a lira-fifty each."

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison