conduct
noun
personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
had been conducting
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past perfect progressiveof conduct.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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Rather, Júaregui said the two U.S. staffers had been conducting a drone-training exercise in a town, Polanco, that is a six-and-a-half-hour drive away from the site where the raid occurred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
As tensions with Iran rose mid-January, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group, which had been conducting routine exercises in the South China Sea, was directed to sail to the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
DeCarli had been conducting a six-year examination, funded by the National Institutes of Health, of brain and vascular conditions that can be risk factors for dementia.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Unknown to him, researchers at the Ministry of Defence had been conducting their own investigation.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
The project was an outgrowth of the secret research Oliphant had been conducting at Birmingham.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
