careen
verb (used without object)
(of a vehicle) to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion.
had been careening
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past perfect progressiveof careen.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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When President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s powerful leader, met in Indonesia last month, they appeared eager for a soft reset of a relationship that had been careening toward confrontation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
In many ways, the Symbolics war offered the rite of passage toward which Stallman had been careening ever since joining the AI Lab staff a decade before.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
