Example Sentences

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The U.S. also recently sanctioned a Chinese oil terminal in Shandong province that had been accepting shipments of Iranian crude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

The landfill had been accepting significantly less waste recently.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

One of the few instances of a federal investigation into a sitting Supreme Court justice occurred in 1969, when Justice Department officials signaled an inquiry into outside payments that Justice Abe Fortas had been accepting.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023

Prior to this, he had been accepting the diagnosis reasonably well, although did not tend to talk about it much unless we brought it up.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021

She hadn't specified, but I guessed directly she had been accepting loans from her friends, and I saw it was that that had worried him.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff